Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Hexagon Transformable into a Square, Plane Dissection
date: label: date made
content: 1932
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: The five pieces that form this model are arranged in an open box made from transparent plastic. The pieces are not hinged. They are stored as a hexagon, but may be rearranged to form a square.
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content: A pattern for the model,part of 1979.3002.55, is entitled "Hexagon into a Square". This model is a mirror image of drawing. Two more drawings relating to this model are also part of 1979.3002.55.The dissection is attributed to the Belgian Paul-Jean Busschop.
label: Description
content: In Wheeler's list of dissections, under 5HL, he lists a"Regular Hexagon into Square". Although, there is no drawing of this model there (see 1979.3002.43, folder 2). There is a drawing in 1979.3002.43, folder 3. Another sheet on this model is in 1979.3002.53, but the model namer is not given.
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content: Compare MA.304723.818.
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content: References:
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content: E. Fourrey, <I>Curiosités Géométriques</I>, Paris: Vuiber and Nony, 1907, pp 133-134. Doesn't mention Busschop.
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content: Greg N. Frederickson, <I>Dissections Plane and Fancy</I>, pp. 118-120. Frederickson attributes this dissection to Paul-Jean Busschop.
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content: Busschopp, Paul, "Problèmes de géométrie," <I>Nouvelle Corespondence Mathématique</I>, 2 (1876), pp. 83-84.
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.304723.786
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.786
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
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content: green (overall color)
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content: plastic (overall material)
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content: wood (overall material)
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content: black (overall color)
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content: yellow (overall color)
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content: turquoise (overall color)
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content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued. (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 1.4 cm x 20 cm x 17.5 cm; 9/16 in x 7 7/8 in x 6 7/8 in