Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- This partially hinged dissection has three pieces. It can be arranged as a near-parallelogram or as a triangle in two ways. A protrusion from one edge and a hole in another edge do not meet.
- These are three of the four pieces in Wheeler's model 4H. A drawing for the model, dated January 6, 1932, is in 1979.3002.55, folder 2. It indicates that the missing piece is a triangle which can be added, with the pieces arranged to form a triangle in three ways.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- ca 1932
- ID Number
- MA.304723.753
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.753
- Object Name
- geometric model
- Other Terms
- Dissection
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- white (overall color)
- yellow (overall color)
- blue (overall color)
- hinged (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 1.2 cm x 14 cm x 6.5 cm; 15/32 in x 5 1/2 in x 2 9/16 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_1073888
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-3411-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
