| The Public Paperfolding History Project
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| How to Construct the Regular Decagon by Folding Paper | |||||||
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page is being used to collect information about the
history of ways of constructing the regular ndecagon by
folding paper. Please contact me if you know any of this
information is incorrect or if you have any other
information that should be added. Thank you. This page includes information about constructing a regular decagon by the fold and one cut method. ********** 1894 'Old Glory: The Flag of Our Country: A Study in History and a Lesson in Paperfolding: Also Some Easy Lessons in Cutting and Folding' by Dr Albert Elias Maltby, which was published in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania in 1894, gives a fold and one cut method.
********** 1900 A method of obtaining a dodecagon from a hexagon using cuts appears in an article in El Monitor 331 of 30th September 1900.
********** 1913 'Trabajo Manual' by C Champy Alvear, which was published by Cabaut y Cia in Buenos Aires in 1913, gives a method of obtaining a decagon from a pentagon by folding.
********** 1940 A similar method of constructiung a decagon fron a pentagon appears in 'El Plegado y Cartonaje en la Escuela Primaria' by Antonio M Luchia and Corina Luciani de Luchia, which was published by Editorial Kapelusz in Buenos Aires in 1940.
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