Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Two Parallelograms Transformable into Quadrilaterals, Portion, Plane Dissection
Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Two Parallelograms Transformable into Quadrilaterals, Portion, Plane Dissection
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- Description
- This hinged dissection has four triangular pieces. It is part of a model of of two parallelograms convertible into a quadrilateral or a rectangle (Wheeler's model 8PA).
- See 1979.3002.43 (folder 2), both for the list of decompositions and pattern.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- geometric model
- maker
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- turquoise (overall color)
- brown (overall color)
- cut, glued and hinged (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 1 cm x 12.5 cm x 10.3 cm; 13/32 in x 4 29/32 in x 4 1/16 in
- ID Number
- MA.304723.778
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.778
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- subject
- Mathematics
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Plane Dissections
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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