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wrote, "I make considerable point of the great strength of the structure, as this is important. Thus most persons have seen a monkey in a zoo, seize the bars of his cage with hands and feet and throw his body violently back and forth, other monkeys following suit. Children in the structure I have erected do the same thing, apparently unconscious of any imitation of monkeys. It can be appreciated that with twenty-five or thirty heavy boys doing this, the strains on the structure are very great."
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Hinton wrote on page 3, "I have found, however, that children seem to like to climb through the structure to some particular point, and there swing head downward by the knees, calling back and forth to each other, a trick which can be explained of course only by the monkey instinct", and on page 4 he
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Hinton wrote on page 3, "Again and importantly, the monkey instinct strong in all human beings and perhaps more clearly displayed in children, makes climbing a sport to which children enthusiastically take, by a psychology about the same as that of a kitten at play with a ball, which of course is
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through a game in which numbers for the x, y, and z axes were called out, and each child tried to be the first to grasp the indicated junction. Thus, the abstraction of
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name Junglegym. Hinton's second prototype "jungle gym" is still standing at the Winnetka Historical Society where it was relocated from the
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATION BILL FOR 1939 HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS UNITED STATES SENATE
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are a part of a jungle gym where a user, hanging in the air, swings between evenly spaced horizontal bars. In
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To reduce the risk of injury from falls, jungle gym areas often have a thick layer of
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The first jungle gym was invented in 1920 and patented by lawyer Sebastian Hinton in
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recommends that playgrounds have at least 12 inches (30 cm) of such material.
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When Sebastian Hinton was a child, his father, mathematician
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Hinton's original patents for the "climbing structure" are
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could be grasped as a name of a tangible point in space.
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Index

Climbing frame

British English
playground
metal pipes
ropes
Australian English

Chicago
trademarked
Crow Island School
Winnetka, Illinois
Charles Hinton
three-dimensional space
Cartesian coordinates
woodchips
National Safety Council
A small jungle gym
Hanging from monkey bars
Landscape structures mobius climber
Landscape structures spacenet climber
Boy in front of jungle gym, 1967
A jungle gym in a school yard in Sweden, 2012
Japanese schoolgirl on some monkey bars (雲梯), 2014
雲梯
A jungle gym in Sweden, 2016
Military variant of the monkey bars
Jungle Jim (disambiguation)
Outdoor playset
Brachiation

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