Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Triangle Transformable into Two Similar Triangles, Plane Dissection
date: label: date made
content: ca 1932
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This model of a hinged dissection has five pieces (two triangular and threequadrilaterals that may be arranged as one triangle or two smaller similar triangles.
label: Description
content: This is model 5TA in the triangles listed in Wheeler's list of polygon decompoistions.
label: Description
content: Drawings relating to this model, dated April 2, 1932, are in 1979.3002.55, folder 1.
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.304723.761
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.761
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: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: glued, hinged and latched (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 1.2 cm x 15.5 cm x 16 cm; 15/32 in x 6 3/32 in x 6 5/16 in