Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- This is a paper hinged model of a dissected polyhedron. It consists of six regular octahedra and eight six-sided figures. These may be arranged to form the union of a cube and a regular octahedron in two ways. One may have the faces of the cube are white and the faces of the octahedron red. Transformed the faces of the cube are blue sides and those of the octahedron are white.
- This is Wheeler's model 776.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- ID Number
- MA.304723.313
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.313
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- blue (overall color)
- white (overall color)
- red (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 13.5 cm x 10 cm x 10.5 cm; 5 5/16 in x 3 15/16 in x 4 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_1068557
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-177a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
