Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- This model has a wooden center, with plastic glued to both sides. The four pieces may be arranged to form an equilateral triangle two different ways. The model is hinged.
- This appears to be model 4TH (Equilateral Triangle Inside Out) in Wheeler's list of decompositions of triangles.
- A drawing for this model, dated April 16, 1932, is in 1979.3002.55, folder 2.
- Compare MA.304723.811.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- ca 1932
- ca 1932
- ID Number
- MA.304723.812
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.812
- Object Name
- geometric model
- Other Terms
- Dissection
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- green (overall color)
- red (overall color)
- blue (overall color)
- hinged (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 1.5 cm x 10.3 cm x 8.8 cm; 19/32 in x 4 1/16 in x 3 15/32 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_1075796
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-3f64-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
