Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- The four pieces of this hinged dissection have plastic tops glued to wooden bases. They can be arranged to form a triangle two ways.
- This is model 4D in Wheeler's triangles in his list of decompositions of polygons.
- A drawing of this model, dated January 4, 1932, is in 1979.3002.55, folder 1. It refers to Macaulay, Math. Gaz, 1915-1916, p. 382. Another drawing, marked D and also dated Janury 4, 1932 also shows this dissection. It is in 1979.3002.55, folder 2. There is a drawing in 1979.3002.50, dated November 21, 1931, that refers to a hinged model using this dissection - this model is larger than that drawing.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- ca 1932
- ID Number
- MA.304723.808
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.808
- Object Name
- geometric model
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- white (overall color)
- brown (overall color)
- yellow (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- hinged (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 1.5 cm x 17.7 cm x 19.2 cm; 19/32 in x 6 31/32 in x 7 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_1075744
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-2b8b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
