Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Rhombic Trapezoidal Dodecahedron
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: The top of this tan cut and folded tan paper model has three points, each surrounded by a rhombus and two triangles. The next layer has five points, each surrounded by a rhombus and two triangles. The third layer has three points, each surrounded by four triangles, as well as six smaller triangles. The fifth layer is like the third, the sixth like the second, and the bottom like the top. Numerous faces are coplanar. A t typed paper tag reads: DT 4. Another mark reads: 612/615. Another mark reads: DT 4. A final mark reads: Rhombic (/) Trapezoidal (/) Dodecahedron (/) Third (/) Species.
label: Description
content: Two models from Wheeler, MA.304723.592 and 1979.0102.136, have tags that read DT 4. However, they are not identical.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louise D. Campbell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0102.136
label: accession number
content: 1979.0102
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0102.136
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.9 cm x 12.7 cm x 11.6 cm; 3 1/2 in x 5 in x 4 9/16 in