Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Hexagon Transformable into a Hexagon, Plane Dissection
date: label: date made
content: ca 1932
label: date made
content: c. 1932
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: The three pieces of this hinged dissection are all divided in half, with half red and half black. They may be arranged to form a regular hexagon with an inscribed black equilateral triangle or a regular hexagon with an inscribed red equilateral triangle.
label: Description
content: This is Wheeler's model 3HA. A drawing (indicating two colors) dated March 23, 1932 is in 1979.3002.55 (folder 1). The model name is not indicated there.
label: Description
content: On his list of dissections, under regular dissections, Wheeler calls this "Hexagon Inside Out," and denotes it by 3HA See 1979.3002.43 (folder 2).
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.304723.788
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.788
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: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut, glued and hinged (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 1.4 cm x 15.5 cm x 18.3 cm; 9/16 in x 6 3/32 in x 7 7/32 in