Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- This hinged dissected polyhedron is a tan paper model of a rhombic dodecahedron that transforms into itself. It is made up of six octahedra.
- This is one of Wheeler's early models of a dissected polyhedron. It is number 768 on his list of polyhedra.
- Compare MA.304723.290 and MA.304723.303.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- 1930 02 05
- ID Number
- MA.304723.303
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.303
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 13.8 cm x 11.2 cm x 15.5 cm; 5 7/16 in x 4 13/32 in x 6 3/32 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_1068553
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-0ada-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
