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Maker:
Wheeler, Albert Harry  Search this
Physical Description:
plastic (overall material)
blue (overall color)
yellow (overall color)
green (overall color)
cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
Measurements:
average spatial: 10.2 cm x 16 cm x 12 cm; 4 1/32 in x 6 5/16 in x 4 23/32 in
Object Name:
geometric model
Place made:
United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
Date made:
ca 1935
Description:
Massachusetts high school teacher and model maker A. Harry Wheeler built several geometric models that represented the union of intersecting cubes, including this one. The plastic pieces of the model are cut and glued to represent sections of yellow, green, and turquoise cubes.
The model has no maker’s mark, but corresponds to three other models numbered “95.” One of these was made by his student Lois M. Parker in April 1938—it is of balsa wood (see 1979.0102.040). A third version of the model is folded from paper and has only the model number on it (see 1979.0102.043). A fourth version of the model, also folded from paper, has notes in Wheeler’s hand indicating that the model is inscriptible in a cube, a rhombic dodecahedron, a tetrahedron, and an octahedron. These notes are dated 1931 and 1938.
In Wheeler’s handwritten catalog of his models, this model is listed as 95 and also numbered H19, as it was based on a six-sided figure or hexahedron.
Reference:
A. H. Wheeler, <I>Catalog of Models</I>, A. H. Wheeler Papers, Mathematics Collections, National Museum of American History.
Location:
Currently not on view
Subject:
Mathematics  Search this
Credit Line:
Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
ID Number:
MA.304723.118
Accession number:
304723
Catalog number:
304723.118
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Data Source:
National Museum of American History
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746af-78d4-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmah_1065757