Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Deltoidhexacontahedron
Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Deltoidhexacontahedron
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- Description
- This cut and folded tan paper model has the basic symmetry of a regular dodecahedron, which each of the twelve faces replaced by five equal quadrilaterals. Hence it has sixty equal quadrilaterals as faces. A paper tag on ther model reads: 747. A mark reads: Aug 21-1926 (/) No 747.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- date made
- 1926 08 21
- maker
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 10.5 cm x 11 cm x 11 cm; 4 1/8 in x 4 11/32 in x 4 11/32 in
- ID Number
- MA.304723.283
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.283
- 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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