Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- The four pieces of this hinged dissection can be arrnaged to form a hexagon or a triangle. Decorative plastic pieces make it possible to show a red rectangle inscribed in the hexagon or a green rectangle inscribed in the triangle.
- Compare to 304723.789. This is Wheeler's model 4HH.
- In Wheeler's list of "Regular Hexagons" this is denoted as 4HH. See 1979.3002.43, folder 2. A drawing is 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- ca 1933
- ID Number
- MA.304723.794
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.794
- Object Name
- geometric model
- Other Terms
- Dissection
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- green (overall color)
- brown (overall color)
- red (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- cut, glued and hinged (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 1.4 cm x 10.2 cm x 9.1 cm; 9/16 in x 4 1/32 in x 3 19/32 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_1075263
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-1e57-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
