Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Small Icosidodecahedron
Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Small Icosidodecahedron
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- Description
- The faces of this cut and folded tan paper model are twenty equilateral triangles, thirty trapezoids, and twelve five-pointed stars.
- What Wheeler called this model is unclear. A sticker on it reads: 570. However, the model with number 570 in Wheeler's catalog of models is supposed to be a "Collapsible Hyperboloid of Two Nappes." This model does not meet that description.
- Reference:
- M. J. Wenninger, Poluhedron Models, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971, pp. 108-109.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- 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: 13.3 cm x 13.7 cm x 13.5 cm; 5 1/4 in x 5 13/32 in x 5 5/16 in
- ID Number
- MA.304723.335
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.335
- 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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