Maker:

Baker, Richard P.  Search this

Physical Description:

metal (overall material)

white (overall color)

soldered (overall production method/technique)

Measurements:

average spatial: 10.1 cm x 10.2 cm x 13.3 cm; 3 31/32 in x 4 1/32 in x 5 1/4 in

Object Name:

geometric model

Date made:

ca 1906-1935

Description:

This is a wire skeleton model of a rhombic dodecahedron, a twelve-sided figure whose faces are rhombuses.. A typed paper tag reads: No. 110 (/) RHOMBIC DODECAHEDRON.

Reference:

R. P. Baker, <I>Mathematical Models</I>, Iowa City, Iowa,1931, p. 5.

Location:

Currently not on view

Subject:

Mathematics  Search this

Credit Line:

Gift of Frances E. Baker

ID Number:

MA.211257.017

Accession number:

211257

Catalog number:

211257.017

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Medicine and Science: Mathematics

Science & Mathematics

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-1c30-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1080251