Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Triangular Prism Transformable into a Cube, Dissected Polyhedron
date: label: date made
content: 1931 04 27
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: The four pieces of this hinged dissection may be arranged as a prism with a base of an equilateral triangle or as a cube. A mark on the object reads: Triangular Prism (/) into a (/) cube. Another mark reads: April-27-1931. A third mark reads: 772.
label: Description
content: Compare to Wheeler's model of a plane dissection MA.304723.766 (4C on his list of polygon dissections).
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.304723.304
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.304
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 8.2 cm x 8.2 cm x 8.2 cm; 3 7/32 in x 3 7/32 in x 3 7/32 in