Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler or One of His Students, Snub Cube
National Museum of American History

Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler or One of His Students, Snub Cube

Wheeler, Albert Harry · 1915-1945

plastic (overall material)
National Museum of American History
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of American History

The Archimedean solids are polyhedra with regular polygons for sides and edges of equal length. For example, the faces of this surface are six squares and thirty-two equilateral triangles. It is called a snub cube. The model is made from plastic. A. Harry Wheeler assigned this model the number 16, and referred to it as Archimedean solid XI. The model is undated and has no signature.

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