Sheets and Patterns Relating to the Work of A. Harry Wheeler
date: label: date made
content: 1939-1945
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: Patterns are cut from paper, metal and one from plastic.
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content: These materials include:
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content: 1. five sheets with pattern pieces for cubes - Wheeler's "regular hexahedra" H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 - both metal and paper patterns for each
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content: 2. pattern piece for hexahedron with inscribed hexahedron - H1-Him - October 14 - 1944
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content: 3. pattern pieces for hexahedron with inscribed tetrahedron - H3-Ti - Oct 15. 1944
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content: 4. pattern pieces for hexahedron with minimum inscribed hexahedron - H3-Him
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content: 5. pattern pieces for hexahedron with inscribed hexahedron between the minimum and maximum - H3-Hix - December 29, 1944 (/) Wellsley May 1945
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content: 6. pattern pieces and drawings for hexahedron with inscribed icosahedron - H1-Ici. Mark reads:Oct 15 - 1944.
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content: 7. pattern pieces and drawings for hexahedron with maximum inscribed octahedron, model H2-OiM. Mark reads: Oct 23-1944 - two sheets
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content: 8. drawing and pattern pieces - hexahedron with minimum inscribed octahedron, number H2-Oim, dated October 1944 and November 29-1944.
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content: 9. pattern pieces - hexahedron with inscribed octahedron between the maximum and the minimum - H2-Oix. Dated Dec 9-1944.
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content: 10. pattern pieces for hexahedron with maximum inscribed octahedron - model H3-OiM. A mark reads: October 22-1944 (/) Wellesley May 1945..
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content: 11. pattern pieces for hexahedron with minimum inscribed octahedron with number H3-Oim. A date reads: Oct 1944 (/) Wellesley May '45.
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content: 12. pattern pieces for model of hexahedron with inscribed octahedron between the maximum and the minimum. The model has number: H3-Oix. A dater reads: Dec 30-1944 (/) Wellesley May 1945.
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content: 13,pattern pieces for model of hexagonal sections of a hexahedron. The model has number He hex Sec, also written H3hS. A date reads: Wellesley May 1945.
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content: 14, pattern for model of two hexahdre intersecting hexagonally, a model with number 2H4. Dates range from June 12, 1944 to Welleseley May 1945.
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content: 15. pattern pieces and drawings for model of three orthogonally intersecting hexhedra, a model numberd 3H5. Dates range from April 9-1939 to Dec 17-1944.
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content: Items 1979.3002.56 through 1979.3002.71 were removed from the same box.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
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: 1979.3002.061
label: catalog number
content: 1979.3002.061
label: nonaccession number
content: 1979.3002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sheets and Patterns
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: plastic (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: tan (overall color)
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content: silver (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 24.5 cm x 37.5 cm x 3 cm; 9 21/32 in x 14 3/4 in x 1 3/16 in