| 词条 | Pinwheel (toy) |
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A pinwheel is a simple child's toy made of a wheel of paper or plastic curls attached at its axle to a stick by a pin. It is designed to spin when blown upon by a person or by the wind. It is a predecessor to more complex whirligigs. HistoryDuring the nineteenth century in the United States, any wind-driven toy held aloft by a running child was characterized as a whirligig, including pinwheels. Pinwheels provided many children with numerous hours of enjoyment and amusement.[1] 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.[2] See also
References1. ^{{ cite web | title = Pioneering Data - A Little History of the Pinwheel (SR12) | url = http://www.nsa.gov/teachers/es/data84.pdf | date = 19 April 2005 | accessdate = 2007-07-07 | author = USA National Security Agency |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070713105933/http://www.nsa.gov/teachers/es/data84.pdf |archivedate = 2007-07-13}} 2. ^{{ cite web | title = Design for a Wind Wheel | url = https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/USD53469.pdf | date = 17 June 1919 | accessdate = 29 October 2013 | author = United States Patent Office}} External links{{commons category|Pinwheels}}
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