Object Details
- Description
- This disentanglement puzzle consists of two entangled bent nails that are to be separated.
- A solution to the puzzle is given in a 1920 A.C. Gilbert publication cited below. Slocum and Botermans discuss the history of the puzzle.
- Compare MA.335296, MA.335928, and one of the puzzles in MA.335288.
- References:
- A.C. Gilbert Company, Book of Instructions for Use with Gilbert Puzzle Parties. . . ., New Haven: A.C. Gilbert Company, 1920, p. 6. A copy of this booklet is online at gamearchives.org, accessed July 26, 2017.
- Jerry Slocum and Jack Botermans, Puzzles Old & New: How to Make and Solve Them, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986, esp. p. 97.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Edith R. Meggers
- ID Number
- MA.335928
- catalog number
- 335928
- accession number
- 314637
- Object Name
- Puzzle
- puzzle
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .8 cm x 5.1 cm x 3.4 cm; 5/16 in x 2 in x 1 11/32 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Mathematical Recreations
- Record ID
- nmah_694617
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-2aa6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
