Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Subgroup Icosahedron
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: The faces of this green plastic cut and glued model are six identical figures erected around a central core. Each of the figues has four triangles (two on two opposite sides) and two irregular pentagons. Each of the pentagons has a facet bounded by four smaller triangles. In other words, the model has for faces twelve irregular (but congruent) pentagons, and a total of forty-eight small triangles and twenty-four larger triangles.
label: Description
content: The model has no maker's mark.
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: 1979.0102.322
label: accession number
content: 1979.0102
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0102.322
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12.8 cm x 11.8 cm x 11.8 cm; 5 1/32 in x 4 21/32 in x 4 21/32 in