Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- The three pieces of this hinged dissection are all divided in half, with half red and half black. They may be arranged to form a regular hexagon with an inscribed black equilateral triangle or a regular hexagon with an inscribed red equilateral triangle.
- This is Wheeler's model 3HA. A drawing (indicating two colors) dated March 23, 1932 is in 1979.3002.55 (folder 1). The model name is not indicated there.
- On his list of dissections, under regular dissections, Wheeler calls this "Hexagon Inside Out," and denotes it by 3HA See 1979.3002.43 (folder 2).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- ca 1932
- c. 1932
- ID Number
- MA.304723.788
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.788
- Object Name
- geometric model
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- red (overall color)
- brown (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- cut, glued and hinged (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 1.4 cm x 15.5 cm x 18.3 cm; 9/16 in x 6 3/32 in x 7 7/32 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_1075130
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-3131-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
