Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- The four pieces of this hinged model are made of plastic glued to wood. The pieces can be arranged as a triangle, a right triangle, or a rectangle. The green plastic is cut, but it covers only one piece
- This is 4A on Wheeler's list of decompositions of polygons. It is a dissection that transforms a triangle into a right triangle.
- A pattern for this model found in 1979.3002.55 is dated 1932.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- ca 1932
- ID Number
- MA.304723.810
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.810
- Object Name
- geometric model
- geometric model
- Other Terms
- Dissection
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- green (overall color)
- blue (overall color)
- pink (overall color)
- red (overall color)
- hinged (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 1.5 cm x 20.6 cm x 13.3 cm; 19/32 in x 8 1/8 in x 5 1/4 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_1075764
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-2c83-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
