Object Details
- Description
- This hollow cut and folded model has four celluloid pieces in the shape of hexagons and, opposite each of these hexagons, holes in the shape of hexagons. The remaining eight pieces are of paper. Each of these is a double figure which has a total of twenty-four triangular and six quadrilateral faces.
- A typed paper tag on the model teads: IS 9. Another mark reads; 497 (/) IS (9). Hence Wheeler considered the figure as developed from the icosahedron.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- transparent (overall color)
- cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 8 cm x 9.2 cm x 9.2 cm; 3 5/32 in x 3 5/8 in x 3 5/8 in
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
