Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Portion of a Plane Dissection
date: label: date made
content: ca 1932
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This portion of a dissection has a quadrilateral base. A portion of a circle is covered with light purple plastic, the remaining area is covered in black plastic.
label: Description
content: This appears to be one piece of Wheeler's model 4QB, Circumscribed Quadrilateral (but not Inscriptible) Transformable into an Inscribed Quadrilateral (but not Circumscriptible) - a drawing for this model is in 1979.3002.43, folder 1. However, the piece does not seem to correspond precisely to the drawing. The drawing is dated April 10, 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.304723.757
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.757
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: purple (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued. (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 1 cm x 19.8 cm x 14 cm; 13/32 in x 7 25/32 in x 5 1/2 in