Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- Companies began selling solar-powered toys for fun and education in the early 1960s. This kit features an inexpensive solar cell that can operate either in sunlight or under artificial light to perform a variety of tasks such as running a small fan. Science educator Bill Nye licensed several solar-powered toys like this unit. A model helicopter and a model biplane are also in the Smithsonian collections.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- from Bill Nye
- 1995
- ID Number
- 2016.0178.01
- accession number
- 2016.0178
- catalog number
- 2016.0178.01
- Object Name
- educational toy
- solar toy
- Measurements
- solar panel: 1/2 in x 4 in x 5 1/2 in; 1.27 cm x 10.16 cm x 13.97 cm
- windmill: 5 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in x 3 in; 13.335 cm x 6.35 cm x 7.62 cm
- box: 9 in x 11 in x 2 1/2 in; 22.86 cm x 27.94 cm x 6.35 cm
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Electricity
- Energy & Power
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1812393
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-a28c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
