Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Angle Bisectors of a Triangle (Portion), Plane Dissection
date: label: date made
content: ca 1932
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This hinged model has two triangular pieces with a greenish plastic top.
label: Description
content: The four triangular pieces of two models denoted by MA.304723.755 and MA.304723.760 may be arranged to form a parallelogram (in two ways) and a triangle (in two ways). They form a partially hinged dissection.
label: Description
content: Objects MA.304723.755, MA.304723.760, and MA.304723.804 form model 6TQ (angle bisectors of a triangle). A drawing for this model, dated April 23, 1932, is in 1979.3002.55, folder 2.
label: Description
content: This model alone also illlustrates Wheeler's model 2TT, an obtuse triangle converted into an acute triangle with the same base. A drawing for this model, dated April 26, 1932, is in 1979.3002.55, folder 2. Another related drawing in the same folder is dated April 3, 1932.
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.304723.760
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.760
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: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut, glued and hinged (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 1.3 cm x 13 cm x 9 cm; 1/2 in x 5 1/8 in x 3 17/32 in