Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- The four pieces of this hinged dissection have plastic on both sides and a wooden core. They can be arranged as an equilateral triangle or a rhombus .The pieces on one side have smaller plastic parts on them so that the equilateral triangle and the rhombus both appear to have an inscribed rectangle
- A pattern for this model found in 1979.3002.55, folder 1, is dated March 10, 1932. See also 1979.3002.43, folder 2.
- Compare MA.304723.813 and MA.304723.814.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- ca 1932
- ca 1932 03 10
- c. 1932
- ID Number
- MA.304723.815
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.815
- Object Name
- geometric model
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- brown (overall color)
- red (overall color)
- blue (overall color)
- hinged (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 1.5 cm x 10 cm x 9 cm; 19/32 in x 3 15/16 in x 3 17/32 in
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Plane Dissections
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1075815
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-193b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
