From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Wed Feb 25 12:25:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: from sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.1/mc) with SMTP id MAA03419; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:25:52 -0500 (EST) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Mail-from: From cube-lovers-request@life.ai.mit.edu Wed Feb 25 00:39:17 1998 To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu From: whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu (Wei-Hwa Huang) Subject: Taiwanese Invention of the Cube? Date: 25 Feb 1998 05:38:19 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Message-Id: <6d0aob$6vq@gap.cco.caltech.edu> I have heard through multi-generation, unreliable sources that the Cube was first invented and patented by a Taiwanese person. This story strikes me as strongly false, but perhaps may have some basis somewhere. Any guesses? Perhaps a particularly different sort of mechanism was patented? A trademark? -- Wei-Hwa Huang, whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu, http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~whuang/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "...he put a wire in his cap and called himself Marconi."