Object Details
maker
Wheeler, Albert Harry
Description
These folders of drawings for geometric models of A. Harry Wheeler and his students include:
1, plane dissections 1931-1938 - references to Farry, Perigal - a few actual patterns
2. plane dissections of hexagons, parallelograms, quadrilaterals, rectangles, squares, trapezoids, traingles (lists a total of 97) - especially 1932
3. plane and three-dimmensional dissections, often with pieces, most from early 1930s - also what Wheeler came to call platform models from 1916.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Louise D. Campbell
date made
1916-1938
ID Number
1979.3002.043
catalog number
1979.3002.043
nonaccession number
1979.3002
Object Name
Sheets, Group of
Physical Description
paper (overall material)
tan (overall color)
Measurements
average spatial: 7 cm x 39 cm x 26 cm; 2 3/4 in x 15 11/32 in x 10 1/4 in
associated place
United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
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Medicine and Science: Mathematics
Dissected Polyhedra
Plane Dissections
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1147187