Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- The four pieces of this hinged model are colorful plastic on one side and have wooden bases. The pieces may be arranged as an equilateral triange in two ways.
- This appears to be model 4TH (Equilateral Triangle Inside Out) in Wheeler's list of decompositions of triangles.
- There is a drawing for this model, dated April 16, 1932, in 1979.3002.55, folder 2
- Compare MA.304723.812.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- ca 1932
- ID Number
- MA.304723.811
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.811
- Object Name
- geometric model
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- yellow (overall color)
- red (overall color)
- green (overall color)
- hinged (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 1.7 cm x 20.5 cm x 17.8 cm; 21/32 in x 8 1/16 in x 7 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_1075778
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-27d8-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
