Geometric Model by Paul Tracy, a Student of A. Harry Wheeler, Eighteen-Faced Polyhedron
date: label: date made
content: 1936 11 17
name: label: teacher
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
label: maker
content: Tracy, Paul
notes: label: Description
content: The faces of this cut and glued tan paper model are six isosceles triangles (three on top and three of the bottom), six irregular heptagons (three adjacent to each group of isosceles triangles), and six additional triangles around the middle (three of these isosceles). A mark in pencil on the model reads: Paul Tracy (/) Nov. 17, 1936. Another penciled mark reads: XY3/XY4.
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
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.304723.497
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.497
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 6.2 cm x 8 cm x 6 cm; 2 7/16 in x 3 5/32 in x 2 3/8 in