Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, One-Sided Polyhedron (Faceted Cuboctahedron)
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This white plaster model has thirty-two white plastic equilateral triangular pieces for components. Twenty-four are arranged in six four-sided facets that meet at the center of the model (these sides are coplanar in groups of six) – alternate triangles belong to opposite “sides”. The remaining eight triangles separate the facets, in the manner of a cuboctahedron. A mark on the model reads: 663 (/) M22.
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content: Wenninger calls the model a octahemioctahedron or faceted coboctahedron.
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content: Although Wheeler classified this model among his Möbius polyhedra, it has two sides.
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content: References:
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content: H. M. Cundy and A .P. Rollett, <I>Mathematical Models</I>, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961, pp. 142-143, 194-195.
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content: M. Wenninger, <Polyhedron Models, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971, p. 103.
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.304723.390
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.390
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (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: 9 cm x 12.5 cm x 12.5 cm; 3 17/32 in x 4 29/32 in x 4 29/32 in