Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Hexagon Transformable into Three Hexagons, 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 seven pieces of this hinged dissection may be arranged as one large regular hexagon or three smaller regular hexagons.
label: Description
content: A pattern for the model, found in 1979.3002.43, folder 1, is dated March 28,1932.
label: Description
content: In Wheeler's list of dissections this is described as "Hexagon into three hexagons" and denoted 7HJ. See 1979.3002.43 (folder 2). There is a drawing for 7HJ, dated March 31, 1932, in 1979.3002.49.
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.304723.791
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.791
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: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut, glued and hinged (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 1.3 cm x 15.3 cm x 17.9 cm; 1/2 in x 6 1/32 in x 7 1/16 in