Pinwheel (toy)

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A pinwheel
A pinwheel

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 to a stick. It is designed to spin when blown upon by a person or by the wind. It is a predecessor to more complex whirligigs.

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During the nineteenth century in America, any wind-driven toy held aloft by a running child was characterized as a whirligig including pinwheels. Pinwheels provided many children with almost endless hours of enjoyment and amusement.[1]

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  1. ^ USA National Security Agency (19 April 2005). Pioneering Data - A Little History of the Pinwheel (SR12). Retrieved on 2007-07-07.

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