Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- The four pieces of this model of a hinged dissection can be arranged as a quadrilateral or as triangle.
- This is model 4X in Wheeler's list of decompositions of polygons (under quadrilaterals). A special case of a square interchangeable with an equilatral triangle is illutrated by models MA.304723.764, MA.704723.766, and MA.304723.819. There is a drawing in 1979.3002.55, folder 1, dated January 20, 1932.
- Compare the unpainted model that is part of 1979.3002.22.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- ca 1932
- ID Number
- MA.304723.762
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.762
- Object Name
- geometric model
- Other Terms
- Dissection
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- red (overall color)
- brown (overall color)
- cut, glued and hinged (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 1 cm x 16.7 cm x 21 cm; 13/32 in x 6 9/16 in x 8 9/32 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_1074326
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-37e9-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
