Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Pentagon Transformable into Square, Plane Dissection
date: label: date made
content: ca 1931
label: date designed
content: 1931 11
label: date made
content: ca 1931 11 27
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This dissection consists of six wooden polygonal pieces with colorful plastic on the top. The pieces may be arranged as a regular pentagon (as they are in the celluloid pentagonal case) or as a square.
label: Description
content: This is Wheeler's model 6PB, in his list of decompositions of polygons (1979.3002.43), folder 2.
label: Description
content: A drawing for this dissection, dated November 27, 1931, is in 1979.3002.43 (folder 1). There is a related drawing in 1979.3002.53, dated December 31, 1931.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Plane Dissections
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.304723.801
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.801
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: purple (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 1.5 cm x 19 cm x 18.8 cm; 19/32 in x 7 15/32 in x 7 13/32 in