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Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Moebius Polyhedron (Polyhedron of Musical Chords)
From the collection of National Museum of American History. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
This plastic model is in roughly the shape of a ring or torus. All the faces are triangles,twelve yellow and twelve white, with the colors alternating. The surface has thirty-six edges and twelve vertices. This would give an Euler characteristic of vertices minus edges plus faces equal to 12 – 36 + 24 = 0. This is appropriate for a surface with one hole. Four of the white triangles are numbered. Face 1 is on the side along with Wheeler’s 739 model number, 2 is a congruent white triangle on the left side, 3 is a white triangle on the bottom of the back, and 4 is a triangle on the bottom of the right side.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineGeometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Moebius Polyhedron (Polyhedron of Musical Chords). ca 1940. Wheeler, Albert Harry. National Museum of American History, Gift of Helen M. Wheeler. CC0.