Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- This is Wheeler's model 4Q. It shows an inscribed quadrilateral in four pieces. Each piece is a section of a circle. It is divided into segments of two colors of plastic, so that there is a yellow triangle with a vertex at the center of the circle and a lune in another color. The model is shown in drawing in 1979.3002.55, folder 1, and dated April 9, 1932 . The four parts can be permuted six ways to form six different inscribed quadrilaterals all inscriptible in the same circle.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- ca 1932
- ID Number
- MA.304723.759
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.759
- Object Name
- geometric model
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- red (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- brown (overall color)
- yellow (overall color)
- green (overall color)
- cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 1.1 cm x 21.6 cm x 21.6 cm; 7/16 in x 8 1/2 in x 8 1/2 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_1074273
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-2cb6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
