Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- This paper folded model is in three pieces. The first is in the shape of a regular octahedron. The second is a group of eight hinged six-sided figures that fit on the eight sides of the octahedron to form a cube. These hinged figures also can be arranged to form a cuboctahedron. The octahedron and cuboctahedron pieces fit into the third piece, a box folded in the shape of a cube. A number on the object reads: 762.
- No drawing for this model has been located. There is a drawing dated May 14, 1939 in 1979.3002.42. entitled "Cube Dissected into a Cuboctahedron and an Octahedron – Pyralin model made May 16, 1939." This is a drawing for the plastic form of the model.
- See MA.304723.738 and 1979.0102.319.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- ID Number
- MA.304723.316
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.316
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 9.5 cm x 9.5 cm x 9.5 cm; 3 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in x 3 3/4 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_1067671
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-31d1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
