One-Sided Polyhedron
date: label: date made
content: 1930 01 17
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This tan cut and folded paper model is symmetrical about the center. At the top and bottom are five-pointed stars, each with a five-sided facet in the center. The model has numerous triangular and quadrilateral sides, many of them coplanar. A paper tag on the model reads: 716. Another paper tag reads: A. Harry Wheeler. A mark in pencil reads: e – k + f (/) 10 – 30 +12 = - 8 (/) No. 716 (/) Jan – 17 – 1930. Here e indicates the number of vertices, k the number of edges, and f the number of faces of the polyhedron. In his catalog, Wheeler also assigned the model number M75. He cited Brűckner as his source, and specifically mentioned a model described on page 185 and shown in Plate VIII, Figure 20.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: A.H. Wheeler, <I>Catalog of Models</I>, A. H. Wheeler Papers, Mathematics Collections, National Museum of American History.
label: Description
content: Max Brűckner, <I>Vielecke und Veiflache, Theorie und Geschichte</I>, Leipzig: Teubner, 1900, p. 185 and Plate VIII, Fig. 20.
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
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: 1979.0102.123
label: accession number
content: 1979.0102
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0102.123
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14.5 cm x 10.9 cm x 10.9 cm; 5 23/32 in x 4 9/32 in x 4 9/32 in