History of Toys - 2016

By sjlion
  • soccerball: Hailey

    soccerball: Hailey
    Soccer ball
    A soccer ball is a circle shaped ball with a pattern, that is kicked with the feet, played on a rectangle field.Charles Goodyear
    The soccer ball was first named a football. The game basketball was first played with a soccer ball.Soccer balls are actually oval shaped, but the checkered pattern gives the illusion that it is a perfect sphere.
  • Crayola Crayons: Lydia

    Crayola Crayons: Lydia
    A tool you use to draw.
  • PEZ by:Fayth

    PEZ by:Fayth
    PEZ are a compressed, dry, straight-edged candy that are shaped like 3 by 8 inch long bricks. They are really only 1 cm long. Eduard Haas lll invented PEZ. The PEZ was invented in 1927.
  • Legos - Collin

    Legos - Collin
    legos are small building blocks
  • trampoline by Cole Williams

    trampoline by Cole Williams
    The trampoline is a gymnastic apparatus consisting of a strong canvas sheet attached with springs to a metal frame. It’s used for tumbling. It was invented by George Nissen Year 1936.
  • Silly putty By: Gabbi

    Silly putty By: Gabbi
    Silly putty can be made in 15 colors. It is soft, bounces, and you can stretch it really far.The inventor is James Wright You can mold the silly putty into any shape you want. In 1968 astronauts brought silly putty to space with them Kids generally shaped snakes and spiders in their silly putty.
  • Slinky: MG

    Slinky: MG
    The Slinky debuted at Gimbel’s Department Store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a steel ribbon coiled up that can flip-flop.
    The Slinky was invented by Richard James.
    When Richard James put the Slinky for sale, all 400 of them were sold in 90 minutes.
    Over 300 million Slinkys have been sold.
    The world’s longest Slinky is 71 feet long.
  • Video Games By:Sam zittel

    Video Games By:Sam zittel
    Definition: Believed to be the world’s first computer video game. It was created on an oscillo to entertain visitors during visitor days at the brookhaven national laboratory
  • Barbie Doll Faith

    Barbie Doll  Faith
    A small scale anatomically improbable molded plastic figure of a human being.
    Inventor: Ruth Handler
    1. Ruth Handler was born in Denver.
    2. It was invented to be a steady outlet for
    for girls’ dreams.
    3. They are multi-culturalizing barbie dolls.
  • Rubik's Cube : Jack

    Rubik's Cube : Jack
    The Rubik’s Cube is a puzzle. In was awarded the toy award in Hungary, France, Britain, The US, and Germany/ The legal defence of the cube was never based on a patent. 43 quintillion possible moves and only one solution.
  • NES

    NES
    Nintendo
    July 15, 1983 The NES was originally known as the Family Computer (or famicom for short)
    When the NES was released it sold for ¥14,800 ($129,55)
    The NES was released in Japan in 1983 in Japan.
    A few of the first games played on the NES were 10-Yard Fight, Baseball, Clu Clu Land, Duck Hunt, Excitebike, Golf, Gyromite, Hogan's Alley, Ice Climber, Kung Fu, Pinball, Soccer, Stack-Up, Tennis, Wild Gunman, Wrecking Crew, and Super Mario Bros.