Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Irregular Octahedron (Portion of a Dissected Polyhedron)
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This model is made from red, white, black and blue plastic. The faces on one side are four equilateral trianges. The faces on the other side are two quadrilaterals that meet in an edge and two isosceles triangles. This is part of model 771, what Wheeler describes as a "rhombic dodecahedron transformed inoto a regular pentagonal dodecahedron and an eight-pointed star dodecahedron." Six models like this one may be arranged to form a regular pentagonal dodecahedron. Such pieces are 1979.0102.317, 1979.0102.318, 1979.0102.336, 1979.0102.337, 1979.0102.338, and 1979.0102.339. The eight-pointed dodecahedron is 1979.0102.340.
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: Dissected Polyhedra
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: 1979.0102.337
label: accession number
content: 1979.0102
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0102.337
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5.1 cm x 6.2 cm x 6.2 cm; 2 in x 2 7/16 in x 2 7/16 in