Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- This paper model of a cube is dissected into a snub octahedron and eight identical irregular octahedra. The octahedra are hinged together The pieces may be arranged to form two snub octahedra (14-sided figures that Wheeler called tetrakaidecahedra) or as a cube.
- A mark on the model reads: 765. Another mark reads: Cube containing a Tetrakaidecahedron (/) April 1931. A third mark reads: Jan-10-1930.
- Compare MA.304723.300, MA.304723.323 (box only) and MA.304723.476.
- There is a drawing entitled "Cube Separabled into two Tetrakaidekahedra" and dated March 1, 1930 in 1979.3002.40.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- 1931 04
- ID Number
- MA.304723.300
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.300
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 11 cm x 11 cm x 10.5 cm; 4 11/32 in x 4 11/32 in x 4 1/8 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_1068535
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-170e-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
