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Maker:
Wheeler, Albert Harry  Search this
Physical Description:
plastic (overall material)
red (overall color)
blue (overall color)
yellow (overall color)
black (overall color)
cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
Measurements:
average spatial: 12 cm x 16 cm x 16 cm; 4 23/32 in x 6 5/16 in x 6 5/16 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. He described this model as “four cubes wrapped about a regular octahedron.” The plastic pieces of the model are cut and glued to represent sections of red, yellow, black, and blue cubes.
The model has no maker’s mark, but is numbered “94.” This corresponds to an entry in Wheeler’s handwritten catalog of his models. He also numbered the model H18, as it was based on a six-sided figure or hexahedron.
Compare model MA.304723.117, which is the same surface, folded from paper.
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.304723.120
Accession number:
304723
Catalog number:
304723.120
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Medicine and Science: Mathematics
Science & Mathematics
Mathematical Association of America Objects
Data Source:
National Museum of American History
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-1521-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmah_1065758