Geometric Model, Great Rhombicosidodecahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1990s
name: label: maker
content: Benson, Harold Walter
notes: label: Description
content: This skeleton wooden model shows twelve faces that are regular decagons, twenty that are regular hexagons, and thirty that are squares. It was made from 180 pieces of wood of the same length.
label: Description
content: Harold Walter Benson, a machinist from Chicago, made the surface in the 1990s, when he was retired and living in South Carolina.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: M. J. Wenninger, <I> Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971, p. 30. Wenninger calls this a rhombitruncated icosidodecahedron.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: South Carolina, Clemson
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Katherine B. Benson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0130.11
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0130.11
label: accession number
content: 1999.0130
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 31.5 cm x 34.25 cm x 33.75 cm; 12 13/32 in x 13 15/32 in x 13 9/32 in