Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- The four pieces of this hinged dissection have green and black sections and may be arranged as a regular hexagon with a black rectangle inscribed or as 30-60-90 degree triangle with a green rectangle inscribed. Compare to 304723.794. This is Wheeler's model 4HH. There is a drawing in 1979.3002.55 (folder1), although it is not marked 4HH and the inscribed rectangle is not shown. A second drawing in this folder is denoted 4HH and dated April 21, 1933.
- In Wheeler's list of "Regular Hexagons" this is denoted as 4HH. See 1979.3002.43, folder 2.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- ca 1933
- ID Number
- MA.304723.789
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.789
- Object Name
- geometric model
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- green (overall color)
- brown (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- cut, glued and hinged (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 1.3 cm x 15.4 cm x 17.5 cm; 1/2 in x 6 1/16 in x 6 7/8 in
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- associated place
- 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_1075176
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-2c21-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
