Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- These folders of drawings for geometric models of A. Harry Wheeler and his students include:
- 1, plane dissections 1931-1938 - references to Farry, Perigal - a few actual patterns
- 2. plane dissections of hexagons, parallelograms, quadrilaterals, rectangles, squares, trapezoids, traingles (lists a total of 97) - especially 1932
- 3. plane and three-dimmensional dissections, often with pieces, most from early 1930s - also what Wheeler came to call platform models from 1916.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louise D. Campbell
- 1916-1938
- ID Number
- 1979.3002.043
- catalog number
- 1979.3002.043
- nonaccession number
- 1979.3002
- Object Name
- Sheets, Group of
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 7 cm x 39 cm x 26 cm; 2 3/4 in x 15 11/32 in x 10 1/4 in
- associated place
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Dissected Polyhedra
- Plane Dissections
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1147187
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b4-96d0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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