Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Stellated Icosahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1932 08 28
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This twenty-pointed hollow model has an underlying celluloid frame that holds twenty paper six-sided polyhedra. Each of these polyhedra might be seen as s a triangular pyramid that points outward and a shallower triangular pyramid pointing inward held by the framework. The model also has twelve holes in the shape of regular pentagons. A typed paper tag reads: I 61. A pencil mark reads: I 61 (/) No.422. Another pencil mark reads: 35'69'10'. Another mark in pencil reads: Augu-26-1932.
label: Description
content: Compare 304723.244, 304723.246, and 304723.235.
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.304723.246
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.246
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 9 cm x 11.5 cm x 11.5 cm; 3 17/32 in x 4 17/32 in x 4 17/32 in