Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Hexagon Transformable into a Triangle, Plane Dissection
date: label: date made
content: ca 1933
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: The four pieces of this hinged dissection have green and black sections and may be arranged as a regular hexagon with a black rectangle inscribed or as 30-60-90 degree triangle with a green rectangle inscribed. Compare to 304723.794. This is Wheeler's model 4HH. There is a drawing in 1979.3002.55 (folder1), although it is not marked 4HH and the inscribed rectangle is not shown. A second drawing in this folder is denoted 4HH and dated April 21, 1933.
label: Description
content: In Wheeler's list of "Regular Hexagons" this is denoted as 4HH. See 1979.3002.43, folder 2.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
label: associated place
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.304723.789
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.789
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: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut, glued and hinged (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 1.3 cm x 15.4 cm x 17.5 cm; 1/2 in x 6 1/16 in x 6 7/8 in