Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- This hinged dissection has four pieces which may be arranged as a quadrilateral in two ways. An inscribed parallelogram transforms inside out. The model has a wooden base, metal hinges and a plastic top.
- This appears to be Wheeler's model 4S, a Quadrilateral Inside Out. See his list of decomposition of polygons.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- ID Number
- MA.304723.756
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.756
- Object Name
- geometric model
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- green (overall color)
- brown (overall color)
- red (overall color)
- cut, glued and hinged (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 1 cm x 24.5 cm x 14.5 cm; 13/32 in x 9 21/32 in x 5 23/32 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_1074260
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-2999-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
