The history of childhood toys

We know that children with Roman and Greek rattles of clay, animal skin or animal bladder balls, clay rattles, hand trucks, clay dolls, hobby horses, tires and rotors player. After reaching the age of three young children, continue to play with these toys, but are, albeit gradually introduced the use of tools and weapons. So from a very early age, even where certain toys they used adult life preparing for their children.

Out of the darkness of the Middle Ages beads,Barrel hoops, wooden toys like tops, wooden horses and dolls, where popular. During this time, Puritans tended to oppose this, for reasons of religious toys. They felt that children should only play with toys that, when written. A popular toy of the time, like the fact that Puritans had a carved wooden ark.

With the 18 Century mass production of toys seized. Pictorial alphabet cards, books, puzzles and games sold well dissected map.

By19th Century, the quality of the toys had been and gone, prices fall. Technical toys, such as steam engines, blocks, magic lanterns and optical toys, such as the kaleidoscope and sold well Zoetrope. Many of our current society toy day started in 1890 and 1900. Produced soldiers, zoos, farms, and later, cowboys and Indians, and railroad figures. In the second World War broke out making toy has stopped. All toy factories, whereconverted to produce weapons. For some, 'home-made toys have become popular again.

The remarkable thing of toys in the 20th Century, the influence of radio, TV and pop culture toys. With the fall in world prices for most of the heroes toys based TV, where everything from the purchase. Buck Rogers, Thomas the Tank Engine and My Little Pony are some famous examples.

A toy drum of the 20th century, replaced the clockwork toys. Butdifferent games over the centuries may seem, many themes tend to repeat too much. toys are still there to maintain skills important for the development and comfort.

Some popular toys in history:

Barbie Dolls - 1959 by Ruth Handler (co-founder of Mattel Brands). The toy was named after Ruth's daughter Barbara. The Ken doll was named after his son. Barbie has some criticism over the years had. When he was a true man proportions, which would be 36-18-38impossible.

Boomerang - There are two types of boomerangs. The way it goes only where the shooting and the way back. Most severe forms of these poles, where used in war and hunting in the Australian outback.

Lego - Lego is a Danish invention Ole Kirk Christiansen, son of Kirk and two Godtfred Danish toy manufacturer. They invented LEGO 1949

Games - The first game was created by AS Douglas in 1952. At that time he held a PhD from the 'Cambridge University human-computer interaction. His first creation was a version of Tic-Tac-Toe.