Object Details
- Benson, Harold Walter
- Description
- This skeleton wooden model shows twelve faces that are regular decagons, twenty that are regular hexagons, and thirty that are squares. It was made from 180 pieces of wood of the same length.
- Harold Walter Benson, a machinist from Chicago, made the surface in the 1990s, when he was retired and living in South Carolina.
- Reference:
- M. J. Wenninger, Polyhedron Models, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971, p. 30. Wenninger calls this a rhombitruncated icosidodecahedron.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Katherine B. Benson
- 1990s
- ID Number
- 1999.0130.11
- catalog number
- 1999.0130.11
- accession number
- 1999.0130
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 31.5 cm x 34.25 cm x 33.75 cm; 12 13/32 in x 13 15/32 in x 13 9/32 in
- place made
- United States: South Carolina, Clemson
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_694530
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-32a2-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
