Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- This is A. Harry Wheeler’s visual representation of the Pythagorean Theorem. The wooden base has a right triangle at the center with square holes cut out along each side of the triangle. The two vertices of the triangle next to the long side are cut out so that metal filings can run from the smaller squares into the larger one. A clear plastic top and bottom hold the filings within the model. In theory, one can fill either the large square or the two smaller squares with filings—according to the Pythagorean Theorem, the area of the large square is the sum of the area of the small ones.
- The model is unsigned and undated.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- 1915-1945
- ID Number
- MA.304723.480
- catalog number
- 304723.480
- accession number
- 304723
- Object Name
- geometric model
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- cut and screwed (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: .8 cm x 15 cm x 15 cm; 5/16 in x 5 29/32 in x 5 29/32 in
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Mathematical Association of America Objects
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1071187
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-1c07-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
