Object Details
maker
Baker, Richard P.
Description
Richard P. Baker made some models of surfaces that hadn’t been known for long. In 1897, the French engineer Raoul Bricard introduced new forms of octahedron. This is model illustrates what is now called a Bricard octahedron. The six triangular faces are hinged together along six edges.The figure consists of two pyramids constructed on the same quadrilateral base (in this case, the quadrilateral is an antiparallelogram). The pyramids have their vertices on opposite sides of the quadrilateral. Only three faces of each pyramid are shown. A typed paper tag on the model reads: No.160 (/) Hinged Octahedron, III.
References:
Richard P. Baker, Mathematical Models, Iowa City, 1931, p. 22. The model is described in the section on links. There is a reference to Bricard’s 1897 paper.
Peter Cromwell, Polyhedra, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 230-240, 429.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Frances E. Baker
date made
ca 1906-1935
ID Number
MA.211257.035
accession number
211257
catalog number
211257.035
Object Name
geometric model
Physical Description
metal (overall material)
beige (overall color)
hinged and soldered (overall production method/technique)
Measurements
average spatial: 18 cm x 18.9 cm x 15.1 cm; 7 3/32 in x 7 7/16 in x 5 15/16 in
place made
United States
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1081237