Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- The four pieces of this hinged dissection can be arranged as a parallelogram or a triangle. The plastic that covers the pieces has been chosen so that a parallelogram appears inscribed in both forms of the model.
- This is Wheeler's transfomation 4Y. See 1979.3002.43 (folder 2) and 1979.3002.43 (folder1).
- The drawing in folder 1 is dated January 20, 1932. It is entitled "Parallelogram into a Triangle."
- An annotation with the drawing attributes it to Taylor. Messanger of Mathematics, Aug 1905-April 1906, pp. 96-97. See also 1979.3002.50.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- ca 1932
- ID Number
- MA.304723.783
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.783
- Object Name
- geometric model
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- green (overall color)
- brown (overall color)
- hinged (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 1.8 cm x 21.5 cm x 12.8 cm; 23/32 in x 8 15/32 in x 5 1/32 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_1074398
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-196d-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
