Sheets and Pattern Relating to the Work of A. Harry Wheeler, Musical Polyhedron: Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheets and Pattern Relating to the Work of A. Harry Wheeler, Musical Polyhedron: date made: 1939-1945. maker: Wheeler, Albert Harry. Object Name: Sheets, Set of.
The object in the museum catalogue
- a cardboard pattern, held together with tape, and marked with musical notes
3, a sheet of drawings marked: Small 812e. It also is marked: New Standard Firve Regular and appears to contain drawyings for models of five regular solids. It also is marked : June 13 1944.
A sheet marked: MUSICAL POLYHEDRON (/) MP (/) Mobius Musical Polyhedron (/) Dr. Shook, Mar. 45 (/) small size Blue-White. It also is marked: 39. The sheet is blank and may go with pattern pieces 1 & 2 and / or with pieces that follow.
- Several sheets of drawings held together by clips relating to Mobius's musical polyhedron. Some are dated July 20, 1939,
Items 1979.3002.56 through 1979.3002.71 were removed from the same box.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1939-1945
- maker: Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Object Name: Sheets, Set of
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: plastic (overall material)
- Physical Description: metal (overall material)
- Physical Description: tan (overall color)
- Measurements: average spatial: 24.5 cm x 37.5 cm x 1 cm; 9 21/32 in x 14 3/4 in x 13/32 in
- associated place: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- Subject: Mathematics
- ID Number: 1979.3002.060
- catalog number: 1979.3002.060
- nonaccession number: 1979.3002
- Credit Line: Gift of Louise D. Campbell
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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