When was the Frisbee invented?
In 1948, the first plastic Frisbees were produced by Morrison and his business partner Warren Franscioni and re-named their invention as Flyin-Saucer. In 1955, Pluto Platter was a new disk… Read more »
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When was the Tinkertoy created?
In 1913, the Tinkertoy setup was created in Evanson, Illinois by Charles H. Pajeau and Robert Pettit. The toy was designed by Pajeau when he saw some children playing with… Read more »
When was the game of Pac-Man created?
In April 1979, a young Namco employee Toru Iwatani developed the game by employing a team of nine men and named Puck Man. In 1980, the game was first launched… Read more »
When was the Piano invented?
In 1709, the first piano was invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori of Padua in Italy. In 1768, Johann Christian Bach played the piano for the first time in public concert in… Read more »
When was the Silly Putty invented?
In the year 1943, Silly Putty was first invented by James Wright when he accidentally dropped boric acid into silicone oil. Dr. Earl Warrick, of the Dow Corning Corporation, also… Read more »
When was the Guitar invented?
The first guitar of six strings was invented in 1779 by Gaetano Vinaccia in Naples in Italy. In the 1850’s, Antonio Torres Jurado in Seville invented the first Classical guitars… Read more »
When was the electronic guitar invented?
In 1779, the earliest six string guitar was built by Gaetano Vinaccia in Naples in Italy. Adolph Rickenbacker and George Beauchamp designed the first electronic guitar which was built in… Read more »
When was Slinky invented?
In the early 1940s, naval engineer, Richard James invented the Slinky toys. It was demonstrated in November 1945 at Gimbels department store in Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. Slinky or Lazy Spring… Read more »
When was Nintendo founded?
On 23rd September 1889, Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo Company located in Kyoto in Japan. The handmade playing cards called as hanafuda were produced by the company. The Magnavox Odyssey secured… Read more »
When was the Tuba invented?
Wilhelm Wieprecht and Carl Moritz in Prussia designed and patented the tuba as a “basstuba” in F1 on 12th September 1835. The tuba is a brass musical instrument of the… Read more »