Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Triangle Transformable into Triangle, 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: This triangular model is divided into eight pieces that fit in a plastic box. The pieces may be arranged to form the same triangle two different ways.
label: Description
content: The patttern for this model (found in 1979.3002.53) is dated June 3, 1932. There it is called 8TS'. There is a second undated drawing of the model in the same folder.
label: Description
content: This is Wheeler's model 8TS in his list of decompositons of polygons.
label: Description
content: Compare MA.304723.803.
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.304723.802
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.802
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: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: purple (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
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content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: turquiose (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 1.5 cm x 24.2 cm x 17.2 cm; 19/32 in x 9 17/32 in x 6 25/32 in