Object Details
- LOGIC GAMES, INC.
- Description
- This puzzle, The Magic Cube, is an early example of what became known as a Rubik’s Cube. It was made in 1980 in the United States and remains in its original packaging, which includes an instruction sheet on a folded piece of paper inserted into the plastic wrapping. For more information about the Rubik’s Cube and other twisting puzzles that use the same or similar mechanisms see 1987.0805.01.
- In its solved position each face of the cube (a 3 X 3 square) shows the faces (1 X 1 squares) of nine small cubes, all of the same color. The squares are red, black, yellow, green, orange, and blue. The background plastic of the Magic Cube is white; the later Rubik’s Cubes had black backgrounds.
- This puzzle is among Rubik’s Cube related items from the Cube Museum, which operated in Grand Junction, Colorado, from 1988 to 1991.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Cecil Smith
- 1980
- ca 1980
- ID Number
- 2006.0061.01
- catalog number
- 2006.0061.01
- accession number
- 2006.0061
- Object Name
- puzzle
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6.1 cm x 6.1 cm x 6.1 cm; 2 13/32 in x 2 13/32 in x 2 13/32 in
- place made
- United States: Virginia, Haymarket
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Twisting Puzzles
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematical Recreations
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1301113
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-e22d-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
