Geometric Model of a Deltahedron (Third Stellation of the Icosahedron) by A. Harry Wheeler and His Students

Description:

Polyhedra in which all faces are equilateral triangles are called deltahedra. The regular tetrahedron, octahedron, and icosahedron are the simplest deltahedra. It also is possible to replace each face of a regular dodecahedron with a “dimple” having five equilateral triangles as sides. This is a model of such a surface. It also may be considered as one of the polyhedra formed by extending the sides of—or stellating—a regular icosahedron.

This deltahedron is folded from paper and held together entirely by hinged folds along the edges. Fifteen of the sixty faces have photographs of students of A. Harry Wheeler at North High School in Worcester, Massachusetts. All are boys. Another face reads: 1927 (/) Stanley H. Olson. A seventeenth face reads: Royal Cooper. Cooper is also shown on one of the sides with a photograph. There is a photograph of Lanley S. Olson, but not Stanley H. Olson. Yet another face of the model has a pencil mark that reads: June – 1927.

Compare MA.304723.038, MA.304723.214, MA.304723.224, and MA.304723.308.

Reference:

Magnus J. Wenninger, Polyhedron Models, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 48.