Object Details
- Description
- This colorful plastic model has twelve irregular pentagons as faces. Wheeler called it a "Tetrahedral Pentagonal Dodecahedron." It is marked: 187.
- Compare MA.304723.148, which has the same Wheeler number, and MA.304723.150, which is not identical but is also plastic and similar.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- date made
- ca 1936
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- red (overall color)
- green (overall color)
- blue (overall color)
- yellow (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- brown (overall color)
- cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 7 cm x 7.5 cm x 7 cm; 2 3/4 in x 2 15/16 in x 2 3/4 in
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
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