Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Polyhedron Inscriptible in a Sphere
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This tan paper cut and glued model has thirty-six equal isosceles triangles for sides. Eighteen of these are around the middle, facing in opposite directions as in an antiprism. Nine at each end form nine-sided pyramids. A mark in pencil on one face reads: 452. A mark on another face reads: No. 752.
label: Description
content: Wheeler listed Nr.752 among his "miscellanous" models and noted that it was inscriptible in a sphere.
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.304723.609
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.609
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: 8.5 cm x 10.5 cm x 9 cm; 3 11/32 in x 4 1/8 in x 3 17/32 in