Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Square Transformable into Two Squares, Plane Dissection
date: label: date made
content: ca 1932
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This model of a hinged dissection has six pieces which may be arranged as a square or as two smaller squares ((one small square is not hinged to the other pieces). The model is marked on the back "Gnomon into a Square" and "6SI" " squares. It also is marked there "Remove this square to make a 6ST Gnomon."
label: Description
content: This corresponds to model 6SI in Wheeler's list of models. The reference to a model 6ST (with five pieces) is unclear. There is a drawing for this model, dated April 29, 1932, in 1979.3002.43, folder 1.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
label: associated place
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.304723.763
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.763
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
label: Other Terms
content: Dissection
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut, glued, hinged and latched (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 1.3 cm x 15.2 cm x 15.5 cm; 1/2 in x 5 31/32 in x 6 3/32 in