Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Reciprocal of a Deltoid Dodecahedron
Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Reciprocal of a Deltoid Dodecahedron
- Description
- This cut and pasted tan paper model has twelve faces. Four are large equilateral triangles, four are rectangles, and four are small equilateral triangles. The faces are arranged symmetrically, very roughly in the shape of a tetrahedron. A typed paper tag on one face reads: DD 10.
- Compare 1979.0102.119 and MA.304723.633.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- maker
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 10 cm x 12.5 cm x 10 cm; 3 15/16 in x 4 29/32 in x 3 15/16 in
- ID Number
- 1979.0102.119
- accession number
- 1979.0102
- catalog number
- 1979.0102.119
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louise D. Campbell
- subject
- Mathematics
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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