Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Cube Transformable into an Octahedron, Dissected Polyhedron
date: label: date made
content: 1930 04 20
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This hinged paper model fits in a box folded from paper and fits around (although it does not entirely fill) a paper frame. It consists of eight triangular pyramids and six square pyramids. Fitting the triangular pyramids into the frame gives a regular octahedron. Fitting the square pyramids into the frame gives a cube. This is Wheeler's model 775.
label: Description
content: There is a drawing in 1979.3002, folder 42, Dated March 21, 1939, for a cube transformable into a regular octahedron.
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: Dissected Polyhedra
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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.304723.277
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.277
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 folded (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 8.3 cm x 8.3 cm x 8.6 cm; 3 9/32 in x 3 9/32 in x 3 3/8 in