Geometric Model of A. Harry Wheeler, Pentagonal Dodecahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1936 01 26
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: The interior of this model contains six irregular transparent green plastic quadrilaterals, with adjacent quadrilaterals facing in opposite directions. There is an opening at the top and the bottom. Each of these quadrilaterals has three four-sided paper polyhedra attached to it. Hence one has a total of seventy-two triangular paper faces. In addition to paper sides coplanar with the quadrilaterals, other paper sides are coplanar with one another. A mark on the model reads:Model (/) 1A. Another mark reads: Pentagonal (/) Dodecahedron (/) Jan 25-26 (/) 1936 .
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
setName: label: See more items in
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.304723.487
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.487
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: 6 cm x 6 cm x 7 cm; 2 3/8 in x 2 3/8 in x 2 3/4 in