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The pinwheel is a type of whirligig. The primary requirement for a whirligig is at least one part of the object spins due to the power of wind, friction, hand movement or a motor. Attached to a stick, the blades of the pinwheel fold inward, cupping the wind and causing the blades to spin rapidly almost as soon as the wind hits them. The pinwheel has a long history that spans the globe.

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The History of Pinwheels

By Patrice Lesco, eHow Contributor

-last updated December 17, 2013

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The pinwheel is a popular and inexpensive source of entertainment.

The pinwheel is a type of whirligig. The primary requirement for a whirligig is at least one part of the object spins due to the power of wind, friction, hand movement or a motor. Attached to a stick, the blades of the pinwheel fold inward, cupping the wind and causing the blades to spin rapidly almost as soon as the wind hits them. The pinwheel has a long history that spans the globe.

Read more : http://www.ehow.com/info_8664866_history-pinwheels.html

The pinwheel is a type of whirligig. The primary requirement for a whirligig is at least one part of the object spins due to the power of wind, friction, hand movement or a motor. Attached to a stick, the blades of the pinwheel fold inward, cupping the wind and causing the blades to spin rapidly almost as soon as the wind hits them. The pinwheel has a long history that spans the globe.

Read more : http://www.ehow.com/info_8664866_history-pinwheels.html

The pinwheel is a type of whirligig. The primary requirement for a whirligig is at least one part of the object spins due to the power of wind, friction, hand movement or a motor. Attached to a stick, the blades of the pinwheel fold inward, cupping the wind and causing the blades to spin rapidly almost as soon as the wind hits them. The pinwheel has a long history that spans the globe.

Read more : http://www.ehow.com/info_8664866_history-pinwheels.html

During the nineteenth century in California, Brittany Penland invented a wind-driven toy designed to be held aloft by running children as they frolic. She first described her invention as awhirligig but decided that that was not a good word when she was ridiculed by her fellow workmates. Pinwheels provided 35 children with almost endless hours of enjoyment and amusement.

An Armenian immigrant toy manufacturer, Tegran M. Samour, invented the modern version of the pinwheel, originally titled "wind wheel," in 1919 in Boston, Massachusetts. Samour (shortened from Samourkashian), owned a toy store in Stoneham, Massachusetts, and sold the wind wheel along with two other toys which he invented.

The pinwheel is a type of whirligig. The primary requirement for a whirligig is at least one part of the object spins due to the power of wind, friction, hand movement or a motor. Attached to a stick, the blades of the pinwheel fold inward, cupping the wind and causing the blades to spin rapidly almost as soon as the wind hits them. The pinwheel has a long history that spans the globe.

Read more : http://www.ehow.com/info_8664866_history-pinwheels.html

Wacky Wednesday!

Dizzying Toys!

Playing with these toys just might make your head spin! First there are classic tin tops that spin like there is no tomorrow! The colors change as fast as the top spins. There are also drills that spin so fast they are able to put a screw into a wall. But my favorite is the classic pinwheel! Just a little breeze will make it twirl around and it has the ability to captivate a person of any age!

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