Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Cube Transformable into Rectangular Parallelepiped, Dissected Polyhedron
date: label: date made
content: ca 1935
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This is a wooden dissected polyhedron of seven pieces that may be arranged as a 1 x 1 x 2 block or as a cube.The pieces are in a green celluloid box. They are marked with the Roman numerals from I to VII. W. F. Cheney, Jr., of Connecticut State College posed this dissection as a problem in <I>The American Mathematical Monthly</I> in 1932.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: A. H. Wheeler, "Problem E4," <I>The American Mathematical Monthly</I>, 42 #8 (October, 1935), pp. 509-510.
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: Dissected Polyhedra
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content: Science & Mathematics
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.304723.711
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.711
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
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content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 2.9 cm x 5.4 cm x 3 cm; 1 5/32 in x 2 1/8 in x 1 3/16 in