Object Details
maker
Wheeler, Albert Harry
Description
The fifteen pieces of this dissection fit into a pentagonal box with a wooden base, plastic sides and top, and paper lining. The pieces can be arranged as a regular pentagon, a square or a regular hexagon.
The pattern is first 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.
This model apparently is not on Wheeler's list of decompositions of polygons.
For other versions of this dissection, see MA.304723.785 and MA.304723.768.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
date made
ca 1931
ca 1931 12 21
ID Number
MA.304723.800
accession number
304723
catalog number
304723.800
Object Name
geometric model
Physical Description
paper (overall material)
plastic (overall material)
wood (overall material)
white (overall color)
gray (overall color)
yellow (overall color)
brown (overall color)
turquoise (overall color)
black (overall color)
green (overall color)
red (overall color)
white (overall color)
cut, glued and screwed (overall production method/technique)
Measurements
average spatial: 3 cm x 20 cm x 19.2 cm; 1 3/16 in x 7 7/8 in x 7 9/16 in
place made
United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
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Plane Dissections
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1075382