Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- These four hinged pieces may be arranged a an equilateral triangle or a square.
- Compare MA.304723.764, MA.304723.819, MA.304723.766, and MA.304723.823.
- This is similar but not identical to Wheeler's Model 4ST. Two drawings for that puzzle, both dated January 17, 1932 and April 26, 1932, are in 1979.3002.43, folder 1. The drawings refers to the Mathematical Gazette - no volume or page is given. A drawing in 1979.3002.53 dated January 5, 193? refers to this model as 4C.
- References:
- Fredrickson, Greg N., Dissections Plane and Fancy, pp. 136-137 attributes publication of this dissection to Dudeney (1902).
- H. E. Dudeney, The Canterbury Puzzles, pp. 49-50, 178-180. Dudeney specifically points out on p.180 that the puzzle may be made with the pieces hinged. The first edition of the book appeared in 1907, the second in 1919.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- ca 1932.
- ID Number
- MA.304723.766
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.766
- Object Name
- geometric model
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- turquoise (overall color)
- red (overall color)
- yellow (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- cut, glued and hinged (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 1.1 cm x 13.2 cm x 20.2 cm; 7/16 in x 5 3/16 in x 7 15/16 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_1074337
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-38d8-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
