Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Square Transformable into Square, Plane Dissection
date: label: date made
content: ca 1932
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: These five pieces can be arranged as a square two ways. A sheet in the case shows the solution. A mark on this container reads: Puretest (/) Aspirin (/) Tablets (/) U.S. 902.
label: Description
content: This is Wheeler's model 5SC.
label: Description
content: A drawing for the dissection, dated November23, 1931, and also April 26,1932,is in 1979.3002.43, folder 3. The figure is much larger than this model.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
label: See more items in
content: Science & Mathematics
label: See more items in
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.304723.817
label: catalog number
content: 304723.817
label: accession number
content: 304723
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
label: Other Terms
content: Dissection; Square
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: pink (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: .8 cm x 6.7 cm x 4.5 cm; 5/16 in x 2 5/8 in x 1 25/32 in