Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, One-Sided Polyhedron
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: In the late 1930s and early 1940s, A. Harry Wheeler took great interest in polyhedra with interpenetrating sides, such as had been discussed by the German mathematician August F. Moebius. In this example, each of the two like-colored quadrilaterals (e.g. the two yellow sides) on the top pass through the model and appear as a white quadrilateral on the bottom. These three figures thus contribute only one side to the polygon.
label: Description
content: A mark on the model reads: 695. This was Wheeler’s number for the model. Models MA.304723.413, MA.304723.397, and MA.304723.398 fit together. Model MA.304723.409 is a compound of four models like MA.304723.413.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Kurt Reinhardt, “Zu Moebius’ Polyhedertheorie,”<I> Berichte über die Verhandlungen der Königlich Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig. Mathematisch-Physische Classe</I>, 37, pp. 106-125. Wheeler referred to this article.
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: Science & Mathematics
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content: Mathematical Association of America Objects
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Wheeler, A.H.. List of Wheeler Models
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.304723.413
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.413
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 cm x 18.5 cm x 16 cm; 1 9/16 in x 7 9/32 in x 6 5/16 in