Octahedron Intersecting a Faceted Cube
date: label: date made
content: 1932 07 18
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This cut and folded tan paper model has faces of a regualr octahedron penetrating a cube (twelve segments of the cube are cut away, one near the midpoint of each edge). Wheeler considered this a higher form of his fourteen-faced tetrakaidecahedron .
label: Description
content: a typed paper tag on the model reads: RS16. Another mark reads: 9 (/) 22 (/) RS16. A third mark reads: Tetrakai- (/) decahedron (/) Second (/) Species. A final mark reads: July-18-32.
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
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: 1979.0102.226
label: accession number
content: 1979.0102
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0102.226
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7.8 cm x 7.8 cm x 7.8 cm; 3 1/16 in x 3 1/16 in x 3 1/16 in