Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Hexagon Transformable into Hexagon, Plane Dissection
date: label: date made
content: ca 1932
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: The four pieces of this hinged dissection may be arranged as a regular hexagon in two ways. An inscribed rectangle in red goes to one in green. The wooden core of the pieces is covered with plastic on the top and on the bottom.
label: Description
content: In his list of dissections, under "Regular Hexagons," Wheler describes this model as "Hexagon with a Hexagon Inside out" and denotes it as 4HG.
label: Description
content: A drawing of model 4HG (without the inscribed rectangle) in 1979.3002.55, folder 1, is dated April 21, 1932.
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.304723.795
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.795
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
label: Other Terms
content: Dissection
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: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut, glued and hinged (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 1.4 cm x 9 cm x 10.5 cm; 9/16 in x 3 17/32 in x 4 1/8 in