Object Details
- Description
- This puzzle, which was made in Taiwan, is a small version of a Rubik’s Cube that is attached by a short chain to a key ring. The edges of this puzzle are about half the length of those of a standard size Rubik’s Cube.
- This puzzle is accompanied by its original cardboard box, which looks like a Rubik’s Cube. It was made in Taiwan in the early 1980s and is among Rubik’s Cube related items from the Cube Museum, which operated in Grand Junction, Colorado, from 1988 to 1991. For more information about the Rubik’s Cube and other twisting puzzles that use the same or similar mechanisms see 1987.0805.01.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Cecil Smith
- 1980s
- early 1980s
- ID Number
- 2006.0061.03
- catalog number
- 2006.0061.03
- accession number
- 2006.0061
- Object Name
- puzzle
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 4 cm x 4 cm x 4 cm; 1 9/16 in x 1 9/16 in x 1 9/16 in
- Place Made
- Taiwan
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Twisting Puzzles
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematical Recreations
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1301115
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-e22f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
