Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Square Transformable into Rectangle, Plane Dissection
date: label: date made
content: ca 1932
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: The four pieces of this hinged dissection may be arranged as a square or as a rectangle. The plastic is so colored that there is an inscribed parallelogram.
label: Description
content: This is Wheeler's model 4SF. A drawing for this model, dated April 26, 1932, is in 1979.3002.43, folder 1. It has the initials AHW.
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.304723.780
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.780
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: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut, glued and hinged (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 1.4 cm x 19 cm x 12.5 cm; 9/16 in x 7 15/32 in x 4 29/32 in