Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- This tan paper model is a dissection of a cube into ten pieces. The pieces are hinged in groups of five ( two rectangualr pyramids, a square pyramid and two more rectangular pyramids), bissecting the cube. These pieces can be rearranged to form a rhombic dodecahedron missing a cube at the center. The missing cube is MA.304723.309. The model fits in a folded paper box in the shape of a cube.
- Hence, MA.304723.295 and MA.304723.309 togther are a dissection of two equal cubes into eleven pieces that can be rearranged as a rhombic dodecahedron.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- 1930 04 01
- ID Number
- MA.304723.295
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.295
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 8.3 cm x 8 cm x 8.3 cm; 3 9/32 in x 3 5/32 in x 3 9/32 in
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Dissected Polyhedra
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1067491
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-2770-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
