Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- The four pieces of this hinged dissection may be arranged as a prism with a base of an equilateral triangle or as a cube. A mark on the object reads: Triangular Prism (/) into a (/) cube. Another mark reads: April-27-1931. A third mark reads: 772.
- Compare to Wheeler's model of a plane dissection MA.304723.766 (4C on his list of polygon dissections).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- 1931 04 27
- ID Number
- MA.304723.304
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.304
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 8.2 cm x 8.2 cm x 8.2 cm; 3 7/32 in x 3 7/32 in x 3 7/32 in
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Dissected Polyhedra
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1067592
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-15bd-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
