Object Details
maker
Wheeler, Albert Harry
Description
The four pieces of this model of a hinged dissection can be arranged as a quadrilateral or as triangle.
This is model 4X in Wheeler's list of decompositions of polygons (under quadrilaterals). A special case of a square interchangeable with an equilatral triangle is illutrated by models MA.304723.764, MA.704723.766, and MA.304723.819. There is a drawing in 1979.3002.55, folder 1, dated January 20, 1932.
Compare the unpainted model that is part of 1979.3002.22.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
date made
ca 1932
ID Number
MA.304723.762
accession number
304723
catalog number
304723.762
Object Name
geometric model
Other Terms
Dissection
Physical Description
plastic (overall material)
wood (overall material)
metal (overall material)
red (overall color)
brown (overall color)
cut, glued and hinged (overall production method/technique)
Measurements
average spatial: 1 cm x 16.7 cm x 21 cm; 13/32 in x 6 9/16 in x 8 9/32 in
place made
United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
See more items in
Medicine and Science: Mathematics
Science & Mathematics
Plane Dissections
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1074326