Sheets and Patterns Relating to the Work of A. Harry Wheeler, Dodecahedra
date: label: date made
content: 1931-1946
label: associated dates
content: 1931 06 21 / 1931 06 21, 1946 10 00 / 1946 10 00
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: These matterials are pattern pieces and drawings for the following models of A. Harry wheeler:
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content: 1. dodecahedron isth inscribed octahedron, numbered D1-Oi. The sheet is dated: Oct 23-1944. It includes paper and metal pattern pieces, drawings on the sheet, and another sheet clipped to the side.
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content: 2. dodecahedron isth inscribed octahedron, numbered D2-Oi. A mark reads: Oct. 19 - 1944 (/) Wellesley May 1945.. A further mark reads: Octahedron inscribed with (/) vertces at midpoints of (/) edges of the Dodecahedron. There are three small loose pieces of paper in addition to the pattern pieces.
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content: 3. dodecahedron with inscribed tetrahedron numbered D2-Ti. A mark reads: Oct 14-1944 (/) #40 Pyralin (/) Wellesely May 1945. Includes an extra drawing on loose paper.
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content: dodecahedron with inscribed hexahedron small size, numbered D2-Mi. Also marked: Oct. 15, 1944 (/) Marjorie Mar. 45 (/) W.F. Cheney, Jr. Mar. 194[. . .] (/) Wellesley May 1945 (/) #30.
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content: 4, didecahedron with inscribed hexahedron, numbered D1-Hi. Dated: October 1944. Lloose sheets are clipped to the sheet.
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content: 5. dodecahedron with inscribed icosahedron, numbered D2-Ici. Dated: Oct 30-1944 (/) For Wellesley May 1945. Loose pieces are clipped to the sheet.
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content: 6. rhombic dodecahedron. Marked: RD2,
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content: 7. rhombic dodecahedron. Marked: RD3.
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content: 8. rhombic dodecahedron 3 speicies,I, II, III, IV - dated Jan 8 1930 (/) Redrawn Ju;ly 7 1944
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content: 9. rhombic dodecahedron with inscribed hexahedron, numbered RD2-Hi (/) v-v (/) Vertex to Vertex. A mark reads; October 1946.
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content: 10. rhombic dodecahedron with inscribed hexahedron. The model is numbered RD2-Hi (/) v-e (/) Vertex to Edge. A note reads: RDE-Hi and RD2-Hi (/) v-e differ only (/) in the position of the inscribed (/) Hexahedron.
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content: 11. rhombic dodecahedron with inscribed octahedron, numbered RD2-Oi. A mark reads: Dec 27-1944.(/) Wellesley May 1945. In addition to patters, a loose sheet of drawings is attached.
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content: 12. rhombic dodecaherton numbered RD1, dated: Oct 21-1944.. With this there is a loose pattern piece of the same size labeled: Rhombic Dodecahedron (/) Circumscribed (/) about a (/) Hexahedron.
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content: 13. concave dodecahedron. A mark reads: Oct 24-1944
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content: 14. dodecahedron short base for Prof. Hildebrandt. A mark reads; June 1944.
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content: 15. pentagonal trapezoidal dodecahedron. A mark reads: June 21-1931 (/) July31 - 1944.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
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: 1979.3002.091
label: catalog number
content: 1979.3002.091
label: nonaccession number
content: 1979.3002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sheets and Patterns
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 23.5 cm x 32.5 cm x 3 cm; 9 1/4 in x 12 25/32 in x 1 3/16 in