Disentanglement Puzzle, Nail Puzzle
Disentanglement Puzzle, Nail Puzzle
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- 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
- 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
- ID Number
- MA.335928
- catalog number
- 335928
- accession number
- 314637
- Credit Line
- Gift of Edith R. Meggers
- subject
- Mathematics
- Mathematical Recreations
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- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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