Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- This paper model of a dissected polyhedron consists of eight hinged congruent cubes, arranged to form a cube. Three faces of each cube are painted blue, three are tan. The pieces may be arranged to form a tan cube or a blue cube. This is Wheeler's model 788 of a reversible cube, dissected into eight congruent cubes. It is in a folded tan paper box.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- 1931 04
- ID Number
- MA.304723.321
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.321
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- white (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 10.5 cm x 10.5 cm x 10.5 cm; 4 1/8 in x 4 1/8 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_1067691
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-23ef-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
