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A Timeline of Toys

A Timeline of Toys. Instructions. Use the toy menu to navigate through your questions on your Toy Research Worksheet. When you are finished, click on the rubber duck in the middle of the menu and begin researching a different toy for our timeline. No toy may be duplicated on the list.

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A Timeline of Toys

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  1. A Timeline of Toys

  2. Instructions • Use the toy menu to navigate through your questions on your Toy Research Worksheet. • When you are finished, click on the rubber duck in the middle of the menu and begin researching a different toy for our timeline. No toy may be duplicated on the list. • Once you have found your toy and researched the required information, complete your timeline card. Don’t forget to include a picture! Start At any time, you may click on the duck in the bottom corner of the slide to take you back to the Main Menu.

  3. Nerf Teddy Bears Toy Menu Dolls Kaleidoscope Kites Yo-Yo’s Wooden Horses Barbie Dolls Roller Skates Etch-a-Sketch Legos Lincoln Logs Hula Hoop Checkers & Chess PEZ Dispensers Jigsaw Puzzles Click on the duck when finished. Slinky Silly Putty Backgammon Rubik’s Cube Crayons Parcheesi Playing Cards

  4. Checkers & Chess 4000 B.C. A Babylonian board game is played that was probably an ancestor of chess and checkers.

  5. Backgammon 3000 B.C. First game resembling backgammon is played in Ancient Sumeria. Games similar to backgammon had probably been played by Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans for thousands of years.

  6. Kites 1000 B.C. Kites appear in China. They have probably been flown since before recorded history.

  7. Wooden Horses 300 B.C. Children in ancient Greece often play with horse-shaped figures with wheels

  8. Playing Cards 969 A.D. Playing cards are first used in Asia.

  9. Roller Skates 1759 Roller skates are invented by Joseph Merlin. However, in 200 A.D. iron skates are used in Scandinavia

  10. Jigsaw Puzzles 1760 English mapmaker John Spilsbury pastes one of his maps to a board and cuts it in pieces along its borders, creating the earliest version of the jigsaw puzzle.

  11. Kaleidoscope 1817 Known in some form as far back as ancient Greece, the kaleidoscope is first patented by the Scottish scientist Sir David Brewster and begins to be sold as a children's toy.

  12. Dolls 1840 The first American dollmaker is granted a patent and dolls begin to be mass-produced in America for the first time. Dolls are one of the oldest forms of toy, and have been found in Egyptian tombs dating back to 2000 B.C.

  13. Parcheesi 1896 A westernized version of the Indian game Parcheesi is introduced in England under the name Ludo. Parcheesi is a type of "cross and circle" game, which dates back to 300 A.D. and was played in the Korean, Syrian, and Aztec cultures.

  14. Teddy Bears 1902 In America, toy bears begin to be called Teddy Bears" after President Theodore Roosevelt. In only a few years, Teddy Bear-mania swept the world, and by 1915 large-scale toy bear manufacturing was in full swing.

  15. Crayons 1903 Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith produce the first box of Crayola crayons.

  16. Lincoln Logs 1916 John Lloyd Wright, the son of architect Frank Lloyd Wright invents Lincoln Logs, interlocking toy logs children use to build imaginative structures. Wright was inspired by the way that his father designed the earthquake-proof Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan.

  17. Yo-Yo’s 1929 The yo-yo is popularized in the United States after entrepreneur Donald Duncan sees the toy being demonstrated in Los Angeles. Duncan bought a small yo-yo company for $25,000 and 30 years later sales of Duncan yo-yos reach $25 million dollars.

  18. Slinky 1943 While searching for a suspension device to ease rough sailing on battleships, navy engineer Richard James discovers that a torsion spring will "walk" end over end when knocked over. James brought the discovery home to his wife, who named the new toy “Slinky”.

  19. Silly Putty 1950 Silly Putty is introduced at the International Toy Fair in New York.

  20. Legos 1949 Ole Christiansen , a Danish toy maker, begins to manufacture toy blocks with a new twist. Christiansen creates a plastic brick that can be locked together in different configurations. The Lego, named from the Danish leg godt, meaning "play well," was born.

  21. PEZ Dispensers 1952 Edward Haas brings the Pez mint dispenser to the United States. It was initially unsuccessful, but gained popularity after Haas changed the original lighter-like design by adding a cartoon head and replacing the mints with fruit-flavored candy.

  22. Barbie Dolls 1959 The Barbie doll is introduced at the American Toy Fair in New York City by Elliot Handler, founder of Mattel Toys, and his wife, Ruth.

  23. Hula Hoop 1959 Arthur Melin and Richard Knerr begin to market the Hula Hoop, after getting the idea from a friend who saw schoolchildren in Australia twirl bamboo hoops around their waist for exercise. Melin and Knerr were actually reincarnating a toy that was probably used as long ago as 1000 B.C. in Egypt, and, later, Greece and Rome.

  24. Etch-a-Sketch 1960 Ohio Art markets the first Etch-a-Sketch. The Etch-a-Sketch was invented by Arthur Granjean in the late 1950s and was originally called L'Ecran Magique.

  25. Nerf 1969 Parker Brothers markets the first Nerf ball, a polyurethane foam ball that is safe for indoor play.

  26. Rubik’s Cube 1980 Ideal Toys renames their Magic Cube toy Rubik's Cube after its inventor, Hungarian sculptor and architecture professor Erno Rubik. The multi-colored cube is now said to be the world's best-selling toy.

  27. What to Do Now Put the date at the top of the card. 1978 Picture of Toy. May be drawn or printed off the Internet. Simon is an electronic game of rhythm and memory skill invented by Ralph H. Baer and Howard J. Morrison and manufactured and distributed by Milton Bradley. Sentence or two describing the toy. Simon Put the name of the toy at the bottom of the card. Once you have found the toy, create your timeline card. Don’t forget to write your toy down on the master list so there are no repeats. Click Here for Research Sites

  28. Toy Timeline Research Sites History of Toys Timeline http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=57154&display_order=1&mini_id=57124 About.Com Toys http://inventors.about.com/od/tstartinventions/a/Toy_Inventions.htm Dr. Toy’s Toy Factory http://www.drtoy.com/toy_history/toy_history_timeline.html I Love Toys - Remembering the Playtimes of Yesterday http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/toys/index.shtml The Great Idea Finder http://www.ideafinder.com/history/category/toys.htm ToyNfo—Vintage Toy Encyclopedia http://www.bigredtoybox.com/articles/ Toy Hall of Fame http://www.strongmuseum.org/NTHoF/NTHoF.html

  29. What to Do Now Put the date at the top of the card. 1978 Picture of Toy. May be drawn or printed off the Internet. Simon is an electronic game of rhythm and memory skill invented by Ralph H. Baer and Howard J. Morrison and manufactured and distributed by Milton Bradley. Sentence or two describing the toy. Simon Put the name of the toy at the bottom of the card. Scoring— 2 pts. For Date 2 pts. For Name of Toy/Game 2 pts. For Picture of Toy/Game 4 pts. For 1-3 Sentence Explanation 10 pts. Total

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