Bruce Rosenbaum, a maker of steampunk objects, showcased a quantum-related creation at the Global Physics Summit in Anaheim.
The object features a small vacuum chamber that could hold a single trapped ion and is surrounded by a spherical structure representing quantum physics and an armillary sphere.
Nicole Yunger Halpern, a theorist from the University of Maryland, collaborated with Rosenbaum in developing the object.
The object combines 19th-century concepts of thermodynamics with the 21st-century concepts of quantum science and technology.