Sheets and Patterns Relating to the Work of A. Harry Wheeler, Evolution of the Dodecahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1944-1945
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: These sheets and patterns relates to A. H. Whee;ler's series of models entitled "evolution of the dodecahedron." Specific sheets entitled:
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content: 1. EVOLUION OF THE DODECAHERON (/) ED 1a r (/) ED 1br (/) MODEL STAND. Another mark reads: Feb-15-1945 (/) 1/6 size.
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content: 2. Model X. This sheet with a drawing also is marked: New Model (/) +[infinity sign] (/) Not Made. Another mark reads: Nov 14. 1945.
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content: 3. sheet with drawing labeled: ED-2 (/) ?.
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content: 4. large folded sheet marked: ED 1 (/) ED 2.
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content: 5. ED-3. This is a sheet only. It is marked: ED-3. It also is marked: 3" Square.
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content: 6. Dodecahedron (/) ED 3. Another mark reads: June 26, 1944.These materials include not only two metal and two paper pattern pieces but a stencil and several pattern pieces on light weight paper.
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content: 7. Dodecahedron (/) ED 4 Three sheets of drawings with patterns. The first is marked: Dodecahedron (/) ED 4. There also are drawings on lined paper
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content: 8. EQUILATERAL DODECAHEDRON (/) ED-4a (/) Compare with ED 8c. A date reads: Feb-23-1945.
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content: 9. EVOLUTION OF THE DODECAHEDRON (/) ED-5. Another mark reads: Fe 22-1945. Incudes stencil and two pattern pieces.
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content: 10. sheet marked: ED-5.
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content: 11, sheet marked: EVOLUTION OF THE DODECAHEDRON (/) ED-5 Duplicate (/) See ED-5. Also marked: Feb 21-1945.
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content: 12. sheet with pattern pieces, stencil, and loose drawing marked: Dodecahedron (/) ED-5a. Also marked: Juy 26-1944 (/) Aug-1-1944.
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content: 13. sheet with pattern piece marked: Rhombic (/) Dodecahedron (/) ED6. Also marked: Dec 19-1944
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content: 14. undated sheet marked: ED-6.
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content: 15. undated sheet marked: ED-7..
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content: 16. sheet with pattern pieces marked: Short Base (/) Dodecahedron (/) ED 7 (/) ED 71. Also marked: Dec 19-1944. Pattern pieces are dodecahedra with one short side (the base), in two sizes.
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content: 17. undated sheet marked: ED-8a
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content: 18. sheet marked: EVOLUTION OF THE DODECAHEDRON (/) ED-8a (/) ED-8b (/) For ED-8c'? (/) see ED-8. Also marked: Oct 21-1945. Also marked: ED-8b use this for ED-4a (/) EQUI:ATERAL
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content: 19. sheet marked: Long Base (/) Dodecahedron (/) ED 9. Also marked: Dec 18, 1944.
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content: 20. undated sheet with pattern piece. Sheet marked: ED-10.
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content: 21. sheet marked: Dodecahedron (/) ED 10 (/) The Cube as a (/) Pentagonal Dedecahedron. Date: Dec 18, 1944. Pattern piece is a rectangle half the size of a cube.
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content: 22. sheet with drawings and pattern piece marked: Concave Dodecahedron (/) ED 11. Further mark reads: Dec 18, 1944. Also marked: This belongs to the (/) Set "Construction of the Dodecahedron (/) Not made (/) for Wellesley (/) see 11a.
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content: 23. sheet with drawings marked: ED-11a
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content: 24. sheet with pattern piece and drawings, marked: Concave dodecahedron (/) ED 11a r (/) Reduced. Also marked: Dec 19-1944.
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content: 25, sheet with drawings and pattern piece, maked: Concave Dodecahedron (/) ED 12 (/) Reduced Size. Also marked: Aug 21. 1944 (/) Dec 18, 1944 (/) Designed about (/) a (7/8)" Hexagon.
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content: 26. undated sheet marked: ED-12 (/) Reduced
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content: 27. undated sheet marked: ED-13r (/) ?.
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content: 28. sheet with pattern pieces marked: ED 13 r (/) Reduced to 1/6 size
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content: 29. sheet with pattern marked: EVOLUTION OF THE DODECAHEDRON (/) ED 14 r (/) V DODECAHEDRON (/) 1/8 SIZE. A date reads: Feb 12 - 1945. The pattern piece is seven-sided.
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content: 30. sheet with pattern marked: EVOLUTION OF THE DODECAHEDRON (/) ED 14a (/) V DODECAHEDRON (/) REDUCED TO ONE-SIXTH SIZE. A date reads: Feb. 16, 1945. The pattern piece is seven-sided.
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content: 31. undated sheet with drawing: ED-14a (/) ?.
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content: 32. sheeet marked: EVOLUTION OF THE DODECAHEDRON (/) ED 14b (/) V DODECAHEDRON. Also marked: Feb. 15 - 1945 (/) 1/4 size.
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content: 33. sheeet marked: EVOLUTION OF THE DODECAHEDRON (/) ED 14c (/) V DODECAHEDRON. Also marked: Feb. 15 - 1945 (/) 1/3 size.
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content: 34. sheet with pattern piece marked: EVOLUTION OF THE (/) DODECAHEDRON (/) ED-14d (/) V DODECAHEDRON. Also marked: Feb 15-1945.
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content: 35. folder with list of models in the ED series entitled: EVOLUTION (/) of the (/) DODECAHEDRON.
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content: 36. drawing of cube inscribed in regular dodecahedron dated: Feb 17-1944
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content: 37. drawing marked ED-?. It is dated: Nov 13 - 1945.
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content: 38, sheet with pattern piece entitled: Regular (/) Dodecahedron (/) ED 8 (/) ED-8d. Dated: Dec 18, 1944. Also with a single sheet entitled: Notes (/) on the (/) EVOLUTION OF THE PENTAGONAL DODECAHEDRON (/) by (/) A. Harry Wheeler.
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: 1979.3002.106
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content: 1979.3002.106
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content: 1979.3002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sheets and Patterns
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: tan (overall color)
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content: gold (overall color)
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content: silver (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 25.5 cm x 33 cm x 4 cm; 10 1/32 in x 13 in x 1 9/16 in