Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Hexagon Transformable into Four Hexagons, Portion, Plane Dissection
date: label: date made
content: ca 1932
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This model of a regular hexagon has a wooden base covered with a layer of white plastic. It presently is held together with string.
label: Description
content: Combined, objects numbered MA.304723.796, MA.304723.797, MA.304723.798 and MA.304723.799 form a model that can be arranged as a single large regular hexagon or as four separate hexagons. A drawing, along with pattern pieces, is in 1979.3002.49. The drawing is dated April 5, 1932 and May 2, 1932.
label: Description
content: This is model 6HC in Wheeler's "Decomposition of Polygons" (1979.3002.43, folder 2).
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.304723.799
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.799
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
label: Other Terms
content: Hexagon
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 1.3 cm x 8 cm x 6.7 cm; 1/2 in x 3 5/32 in x 2 5/8 in