Sheets and Patterns Relating to the Work of A. H. Wheeler
date: label: date made
content: 1931-1942
notes: label: Description
content: These notes, drawings and patterns pertain to plane dissections. They include:
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content: 1. drawings relating to transformation of a hexagon into a square - 1932
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content: 2. drawings relating to hexagon and square
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content: 3. drawings relating to transformation of a regular hexagon into two equal regular hexagons - March 31, 1932
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content: 4, drawing relating to hexagon into four hexatons - 7HD - April 13, 1932
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content: 5. drawing related to hexagon into hexagon inside out - 4HG - April 21, 1939
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content: 6. drawing related to hexagonal top - with three pattern pieces not the same as the drawing - March 31, 1932
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content: 7,. drawing relating to hexagon into hexagon inside out - March 23, 1932
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content: 8 drawuigs (on one page) for regular hexagon into two equilateral triangles (March 1931) and regular hexagon into a 30 degree x 60 degree x 90 degree triangle.
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content: 9, drawing for regular hexagon into three congruent regular hexagons - March 22, 1932
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content: 10. drawing for regular hexagon into two equilateral triangles - 4HI - April 28, 1931
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content: 11. drawing for regular hexagon into a 30 x60 x 90 degree triangle - April 21, 1931
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content: 12,drawing for regular hesagon into four congruent regular hexagons - March 22, 1932.
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content: 13,drawing for triangle separated into three congruent triangles - 12TII - April 2, 1932
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content: 14. drawing for regular hexagon into two intersectiing equilateral triangles - 7HE - April 5, 1932
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content: 15. drawing for hexagon into a hexagon (inside out) - 3HP - April 17, 1932
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content: 16. drawing for regular hexagon into a rhombus - 4HO - April 16, 1932
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content: 17. dissected hexagon (Ralph Holmes) - 6HR - April 26, 1932.
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content: 18. regular hesagon into two equilateral triangles, or rhombus, or hexagonal top 6HN - April 16, 1932
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content: 19. hexagon into four equal hexagons - August 9, 1932
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content: 20. hexagon into four equal hexagons (variation) - May 9, 1932
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content: 21. hexagon into four equal hexagons - May 9, 1932 - not the same as #20 on the list.
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content: 22. hexagon into four equal hexagons - May 9, 1932
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content: 23. equilateral triangle into a rhombus March 10, 1932
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content: 24, rectangle into a square - Perigal - March 29, 1932
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content: 25 . drawings relating to square into four other squares - December 30, 1931, Jaunary 8, 1932 - 8SG - plus additional drawings on topic
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content: 26. drawing - triangle into a trapezoid - March 2, 1932.
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content: 27. parallelogram into the same parallelogram with parts arranged in a different order - 4PB - Jan 8, 1932, March 9, 1933 - with pieces.
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content: 28, copy of a plate showing plane dissections from a paper of R. Brodie - <I>Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh</I>, vol. XXXVI, Plate II, 189. - also notes on the paper.
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content: 29. two pages of diagrams relating to colors of the spectrum.
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content: 30. pieces for a eleven-piece plane dissection in envelope, with pieces labeled from 1 to 12.
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content: 31 (etc.) drawings of plane dissections of quadrilaterals and triangles
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content: 32, reprint of a 1937 paper by M. Goldberg, "A class of multi-symmetric polyhedra"
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content: 33. drawings of hinges for hinged dissections
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content: 34. further drawings relating to plane dissections.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louise D. Campbell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.3002.055
label: catalog number
content: 1979.3002.055
label: nonaccession number
content: 1979.3002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sheets and Patterns
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: tan (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 26.5 cm x 37.5 cm x 4 cm; 10 7/16 in x 14 3/4 in x 1 9/16 in