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Jacob's ladder
Jacob's ladder
It is a simple toy consisting of blocks of wood strung together with ribbons.
The Jacob’s ladder was invented in 1729.
Hiraga Gennai, a Japanese inventor, constructed a Jacob's ladder.
Legend says that a Jacob’s ladder was found in King Tut's tomb, meaning it was invented in 1352 B.C.
Its common name comes from the biblical story of a dream Jacob had of a ladder ascending to heaven.
The toy was invented in 1729 but was sold to the public as a toy in 1889, about 160 years later. -
Schleich- Katie
Schleich is a German producer and the headquarters are in Germany too. Schleich was founded by Friedrich Schleich and Schleich was a family owned business. These plastic animals come in various farm animals like horses, cow, and other animals. they also come in wild animals like wolves or Polar Bears. This was invented in 1935. The date and month is unknown to me. -
Sorry! by: Alli
Sorry is based on Pachisi an ancient game from India. The objective of the game is to get all four pieces around the board and into the home spot. In the game there is a card called the sorry card where you can take one pawn out of the home spot and put it in somebody else's spot that person then needs to put there pawn in their start spot. You can only move backwards with the 4 card. With the ten card you also can also move one space backwards. William Henry story created sorry. -
slinky-cecilia
A slinky is a precompressed helical spring toy invented by Richard James. It was invented on accident. During the vietnam war soldiers used slinkys as mobile radio antennas.Slinky is the Official State Toy of Pennsylvania. NASA used the springy toy for zero-gravity psychics experiments in space. As he kept the price of the toy at $1, he raked in the modern equivalent of $1 billion in revenue.Over 300 million Slinkys have been sold between 1945 and 2005. The original slinky is the best seller. -
Silly Putty- Amelia
Silly Putty was invented on accident by a scientist named, Dr. James Wright because he was trying to make a rubber material. The toy itself is a moldable silicone-based putty. Silly Putty is packaged in a plastic egg container because it was invented in the spring and the commercial was based off of the holiday Easter. This putty is now owned by the company Crayola. In 1968, it was taken to outer space. More than 300 million eggs of Silly Putty have been sold since 1950. They lift ink from paper -
Etch a Sketch - Jaclyn
The toy I saw is an Etch a Sketch. It was created by André Cassagnes. It was the best selling toy of its year. Over 100 million have been sold so far. Some artists have created permanent masterpieces by removing the aluminum powder and resealing the Etch a sketch. The left knob leaves a horizontal line, and the right knob moves vertically. When you move the knobs, you are moving a stylus across the back. It was introduced at the peak of Baby Boom. It sold 600,000 units the opening year alone. -
Newton's Cradles-Zach
Newton's cradle is a toy that demonstrates conservation of momentum and energy using a series of swinging spheres. When one sphere at the end is lifted and released, it strikes the stationary spheres, transmitting a force through the stationary spheres that pushes the last sphere upward. Newton's Cradle was invented in 1967 by English actor Simon Prebble and named in honor of scientist and mathematician Isaac Newton, because it employs Newton's Laws. -
Battleship By: Zoe
Battleship was originally played with pen and paper but now it is one of the most popular games. The paper and pen battleship was started in 1930. Battleship is also known as "sea battle." Vittorio Cuniberti was a Navy chief who invented battleship. The ships were based off of Navy ships that were actual Navy ships. -
Hot wheels-Rey
Hot Wheels is a brand of die-cast toy cars introduced by American toy maker Mattel in 1968. It was the primary competitor of Matchbox until 1997, when Mattel bought Tyco Toys, then-owner of Matchbox. Hot wheels was created by Elliot Handler. Every second, 16.5 hot wheels cars are produced. Hot wheels have produced more than 20,000 different cars designs. -
Bitty Baby - Samantha
Bitty Baby is an American Girl line of 15" infant baby dolls for children ages 3 and up. Bitty Baby's arms, legs, and head are made from vinyl. The dolls were marketed as a way to get children to adjust to having a young baby in the house. The dolls were gender neutral, unlike the later Bitty Baby; it was expected that the doll could be a younger boy or girl. -
Beyblades
Beyblade is a line of spinning top toys originally developed by Takara and manufactured by Takara Tomy, first released in Japan on December 1999. The main part of the series is that the beyblade is customizable, with interchangeable parts.The Beyblade toy line went on to be one of the most popular toy lines in the world from 2000–2005 and as of 2005 over 100 million units had been sold worldwide. -
Silly Bandz - Tyler
Silly Band were created Robert Croak. The company had a profit of $100 million dollars. Silly Band stopped being made because they were distracting in schools and people fought over them. Silly Bandz were also banned because people were stealing from kids at there school. Silly Banz at one time was a most selling item. Silly Bandz in 2008 was there highest peak. They were selling over millions of packs a week. Now Silly Bandz are recycled and they are used for its original purpose, rubber bands -
zhu zhu pets-Colin
the creator of Zhu Zhu pets was Russ Hornsby. They are fake hamsters. For a time they sold for over 60$. They can be put in two different modes where it can be nurturing mode and adventure mode. In nuturing mode it will be calm, in adventure mode it will rome around the house.
