Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Isoceles Triangle Transformable into Rectangle, Plane Dissection
date: label: date made
content: ca 1932
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: The three pieces of this hinged dissection may be arranged as a rectangle or as an isoceles triangle.
label: Description
content: Sheets entitled Regular Hexagons in 1979.3002.43, folder 2 discuss this model, where it is shown in a list of dissected rectangles. Wheeler apparently denoted it by 3O or 3Alpha. There is a drawing in 1979.3002.43, folder 1, dated January 29, 1932 and labeled 3alpha.
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.304723.781
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.781
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: purple (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: hinged (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 1.3 cm x 17.5 cm x 11 cm; 1/2 in x 6 7/8 in x 4 11/32 in