Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- This hinged dissected polyhedron is a paper model that consists of a rhombic dodecahedron divided into 4 parallelopipeds with rhombic faces (Wheeler calls them rhombihedra). In its initial position, the outside faces are tan. Turned inside out, the faces showing are painted blue.
- This is Wheeler's model 770. It is one of his earliest dated dissected polyhedron models.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- 1930 02 15
- ID Number
- MA.304723.293
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.293
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- blue (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 11.3 cm x 16 cm x 11 cm; 4 7/16 in x 6 5/16 in x 4 11/32 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_1067486
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-11e3-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
