Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Polyhedra Inscribed in Regular Octahedron
Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Polyhedra Inscribed in Regular Octahedron
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- Description
- This model has a transparent plastic regular octahedron, with faces clipped together at the vertices, on the outside. Each of the eight faces has (or once had) six holes that contained beads. Threads passing through the beads form (or once formed) the outline of cubes inscribed in the octahedron - one red, one gold, one black, one green, one brown, and one turquoise. The model has no maker's mark.
- For related models, see drawings in 1979.3002.046
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- date made
- 1930-12-31
- maker
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- thread (overall material)
- green (overall color)
- red (overall color)
- yellow (overall color)
- turquoise (overall color)
- green (overall color)
- yellow (overall color)
- red (overall color)
- turquoise (overall color)
- cut, folded and sewn (overall production method/technique)
- cut, folded and sewn (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 7.2 cm x 5.3 cm x 5.3 cm; 2 27/32 in x 2 3/32 in x 2 3/32 in
- ID Number
- MA.304723.740
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.740
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- subject
- Mathematics
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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