Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- This paper model of a dissected polyhedron consists of eight equal triangular pyramids arranged in the facets of a faceted regular octahedron to form a regular octahedron. If the pyramids are reversed, so that they point outward, one has a rhombic dodecahedron with eight hollow cells. Tthe two forms of the model are not congruent.
- This is Wheeler's model 787.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- 1930 04 08
- ID Number
- MA.304723.320
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.320
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 10 cm x 11.5 cm x 13 cm; 3 15/16 in x 4 17/32 in x 5 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_1067687
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-26fb-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
