Object Details
- patentee
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- The Archimedean solids are polyhedra with regular polygons for sides and edges of equal length. For example, the faces of this surface are twelve regular pentagons and eighty equilateral triangles. It is called a snub dodecahedron. The model is cut and folded from paper. A mark on two faces reads: XII (/) 17. A. Harry Wheeler (/) Nov.1.1931 (/) Pat. 1292188. A paper sticker glued to another side reads: 17. Wheeler assigned the model the number 17, and referred to it as Archimedean solid XII.
- References:
- Magnus J. Wenninger, Polyhedron Models, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 32.
- A. H. Wheeler, Catalog of Models, A. H. Wheeler Papers, Mathematics Collections, National Museum of American History.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- 1931
- ID Number
- MA.304723.062
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.062
- Object Name
- geometric model
- Other Terms
- geometric model; Snub Dodecahedron; Archimedean Solid
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 11.5 cm x 13.5 cm x 13.5 cm; 4 17/32 in x 5 5/16 in x 5 5/16 in
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Mathematical Association of America Objects
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1065387
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746af-78d5-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
