Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- The faces of this green plastic cut and glued model are six identical figures erected around a central core. Each of the figues has four triangles (two on two opposite sides) and two irregular pentagons. Each of the pentagons has a facet bounded by four smaller triangles. In other words, the model has for faces twelve irregular (but congruent) pentagons, and a total of forty-eight small triangles and twenty-four larger triangles.
- A paper tag on the model reads: 498. Another mark reads: 498 (/) Plastic. Wheeler plased the model in his subgroup icosahedra.
- Compare MA.304723.617 (the paper version of this model) and 1979.0102.322.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- ID Number
- MA.304723.617
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.617
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 10.2 cm x 12.5 cm x 15 cm; 4 1/32 in x 4 29/32 in x 5 29/32 in
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1072979
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-420a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
