Object Details
- Description
- This cut and glued tan paper model represents the union of twelve overlapping regular tetrahedra. It has four faces that have eight edges on the outside and an equilateral triangle in the middle; twelve faces that are parallelograms (three at each of four courners); and four regular hexagons on the inside. The entire model is inscriptible in a regular tetrahedron.
- A mark in pencil on the model reads: 12 Tetrahedra Inscriptible in (/) a Regular Tetrahedron (/) Aug. 20, 1938 (/) No 75. A paper tag reads: 75.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- date made
- 1938 08 20
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 6.5 cm x 8 cm x 9 cm; 2 9/16 in x 3 5/32 in x 3 17/32 in
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
