Object Details
- Description
- This regular hexagon has a wooden base and an orange plastic top. Combined, objects numbered MA.304723.796, MA.304723.797, MA.304723.798 and MA.304723.799 form a model that can be arranged as a single large regular hexagon or as four separate hexagons.
- This is model 6HC in Wheeler's "Decomposition of Polygons" (1979.3002.43, folder 2). A drawing, along with pattern pieces, is in 1979.3002.49. It is dated April 5, 1932 and May 2, 1932.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- date made
- ca 1932
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- red (overall color)
- brown (overall color)
- cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 1.5 cm x 6.7 cm x 8 cm; 19/32 in x 2 5/8 in x 3 5/32 in
- Object Name
- geometric model
