Geometric Model by Robert Cumming, a Student of A. Harry Wheeler, Pentagonal Dodecahedron?
Geometric Model by Robert Cumming, a Student of A. Harry Wheeler, Pentagonal Dodecahedron?
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- Description
- The faces of this cut and folded brown paper model may be considered as in six groups, each with two irregular pentagons on the side and four small isosceles triangles, two at each end. Hence there are a total of twelve pentagons and twnty-four triangles. Each pentagon is in the same plane as another pentagon and each triangle in the same plane as three other triangles. A mark on the model reads: Robert '36 (/) Cumming.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Other Terms
- Geometric Model; Polyhedron
- date made
- ca 1936
- unspecified
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- maker
- Cumming, R. H.
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- brown (overall color)
- cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 7 cm x 7 cm x 7 cm; 2 3/4 in x 2 3/4 in x 2 3/4 in
- ID Number
- MA.304723.044
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.044
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- subject
- Mathematics
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- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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