Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Subgroup Icosahedron
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: The underlying structure of this model is a transparent plastic pentagonal dodecahedron, with one edge of each pentagon longer than the other four. Eight vertices have a fifteen-sided paper polyhedron attached to them. A mark reads: 492 (/) IS (10) (/) Icosahedron (/) 1. A paper tag reads: IS 10. Wheeler included the model in his subgroup icosahedra.
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.304723.259
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.259
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: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut, folded and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: cut, folded and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 6.3 cm x 6.4 cm x 6.8 cm; 2 15/32 in x 2 17/32 in x 2 11/16 in