Sheets, Drawings and Patterns of Dissections
date: label: date made
content: 1930-1940
label: date made
content: 1932-1940
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This group contains sheets with drawings of plane dissections and cut out pattern for dissections.. Included are:
label: Description
content: 1. four sheets of drawings (one cut out) of pieces that may be arranged to form a parallelogram, a five-pointed star, or a square. - dated April 25, 1940.
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content: 2. drawings and pieces for a dissection of a regular hexagon into a n equilateral triangle. This is supposed to be a six-piece dissection. The six pieces fill the hexagon on the first sheet of drawings. - March 30, 1932
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content: 3. manuscript with drawings - to transform a regular hexagon into a square.
label: Description
content: 5. drawing entitled pentagon square - with number 6PB - 1931
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content: 6, drawing, hexagon transformable into a square - December 1931.
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content: 7. triangle transformable into same triangle - 8TS' - June 3, 1932 - also drawing for 8TS from January 1930 and June 1932.
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content: 8. equilateral triangle transformable into square - 4C
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content: 9. triangle into same tiangle - 8TS family.
label: Description
content: 10 rhombic dodecathedron - January 27, 1930 (2 sheets).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louise D. Campbell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.3002.053
label: catalog number
content: 1979.3002.053
label: nonaccession number
content: 1979.3002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sheets and Patterns
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: gray (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 24.5 cm x 37.5 cm x 2 cm; 9 21/32 in x 14 3/4 in x 25/32 in