Object Details
- Description
- This dissection consists of six wooden polygonal pieces with colorful plastic on the top. The pieces may be arranged as a regular pentagon (as they are in the celluloid pentagonal case) or as a square.
- This is Wheeler's model 6PB, in his list of decompositions of polygons (1979.3002.43), folder 2.
- A drawing for this dissection, dated November 27, 1931, is in 1979.3002.43 (folder 1). There is a related drawing in 1979.3002.53, dated December 31, 1931.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- date made
- ca 1931
- date designed
- 1931 11
- date made
- ca 1931 11 27
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- Physical Description
- white (overall color)
- green (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- red (overall color)
- purple (overall color)
- brown (overall color)
- plastic (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 1.5 cm x 19 cm x 18.8 cm; 19/32 in x 7 15/32 in x 7 13/32 in
- Object Name
- geometric model
