Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Hexagon Transformable into Square Transformable into Pentagon, Plane Dissection
date: label: date made
content: ca 1931
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: The fifteen pieces of this dissection fit into a hexagonal box. All are are plastic glued to wood. The box is plastic nailed to wood. The pieces can be arranged as a square, a pentagon, or a hexagon.
label: Description
content: A pattern is in 1979.3002.43 (folder 1). Drawings of triangle-square-pentagon (14 pieces), triangle-square-pentagon-hexagon (26 pieces), square-pentagon-hexagon (15 pieces), triangle-square-hexagon (13 pieces) dated December 21, 1931 are in 1979.3002.43, folder 3.
label: Description
content: For other versions of this puzzle, see MA.304723.768 and MA.304723.800.
label: Description
content: This model apparently is not on Wheeler's list of decompositions of ploygons.
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.304723.785
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.785
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)
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content: red (overall color)
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content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
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content: turquiose (overall color)
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content: white (overall color)
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content: black (overall color)
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content: green (overall color)
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content: purple (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut, glued and nailed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 3 cm x 19.7 cm x 17.2 cm; 1 3/16 in x 7 3/4 in x 6 25/32 in