Geometric Model by R. L. Curtis, a Student of A. Harry Wheeler, One-Sided Polyhedron
date: label: date made
content: 1938 10 30
name: label: teacher
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
label: maker
content: Curtis, Robert L.
notes: label: Description
content: This tan paper model has an equilateral triangle for a base and three triangles on the sides that meet in a point. A thin pyramid with a quadrilateral base is attached to each side edge of this larger triangular pyramid. One edge of each thin pyramids coincides with an edge of the larger triangular pyramid. One short edges from each pyramid meets another thin pyramid at the top of the model. Many sides are coplanar. A tag on the side reads: 650.
label: Description
content: According to Wheeler’s catalog, model 650 has six vertices, fifteen faces, fifteen edges, and ten faces, for e - k +f = 1. Model 651 has ten vertices (e=10), eighteen edges (k=18), and nine faces, (f = 9) for an Euler characteristic of e – k + f = 1. Compare MA.304723.378 (which has a tag that reads 650 but is not the same shape as this model) and 304723.377 (which has the same shape as this model but is numbered 651).
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: A. H. Wheeler, "List of Models," Mathematics Collections, Non-accession number 1979.3002.83, NMAH.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
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 Helen M. Wheeler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.304723.401
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.401
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 11 cm x 17.5 cm x 14.3 cm; 4 11/32 in x 6 7/8 in x 5 5/8 in