Geometric Model, Semi-Regular Prism
name: label: maker
content: Benson, Harold Walter
notes: label: Description
content: This wooden model has three pentagonal faces, all of equal size, and five equilateral triangular faces, all of equal size. Two of the triangles are in parallel planes. Three other triangles surround one of these triangles. Three pentagons surround the other triangle.
label: Description
content: Some hobbyists enjoy figuring out how to make attractive models of geometric surfaces. Harold Walter Benson, a machinist from Chicago, made this model in the 1990s, when he was retired and living in South Carolina.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: South Carolina, Clemson
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 Katherine B. Benson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0130.05
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0130.05
label: accession number
content: 1999.0130
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 cm x 13 cm x 12.5 cm; 4 23/32 in x 5 1/8 in x 4 29/32 in