A font for the blind, fur headphones, popsicles, a trampoline, a snowmobile, and even a robot firefighter! All this was invented by children - young inventors!

For the day of children's inventions, we have prepared an exhibition "Invent-ka", where we have collected many descriptions of children's inventions.
Children's Invention Day or Kid Inventors' Day is celebrated around the world on January 17th. It is symbolic that the date of the Day is the birthday of one of the outstanding Americans - statesman, diplomat, scientist, inventor, journalist Benjamin Franklin. Young Ben, at the age of 12, invented a simple device to increase the speed of a swimmer by making boards the size of a foot and hand, demonstrating their speed capabilities to surprised friends. These devices are still in use today.

There are many important inventions for mankind that were made by children. And every year the list of children's inventions increases, because there are more than half a million little inventors in the world!

Thomas Edison, the greatest inventor of all time, has been known as a child prodigy since childhood. He was fond of chemistry and mechanics from an early age. As a teenager, Thomas experimented with optimizing telegraph communication on the railroad, which one day almost caused a major accident.

Many children's inventions completely changed our world and accelerated the progress of mankind. 15-year-old French boy Louis Braille came up with a system of relief-dot writing for the blind. Louis became blind at the age of three in an accident. Braille is used throughout the world today, allowing blind and visually impaired people to access information.

The idea of ​​​​creating fur earmuffs to protect against the cold belongs to 15-year-old American Chester Greenwood, who loved to listen to the player and skate. Doing both was uncomfortable - my ears were freezing! In 1873, he asked his grandmother to attach pieces of fur to a wire. So there were headphones that protect the ears from the cold.

Toy tilt-back truck patented in the name of Robert Patch, age 6. The kid drew the toy of his dreams and asked his father to make exactly the same. The invention, to the delight of the children, began to be produced immediately.

Sometimes a child's mind, mobile and unencumbered by stereotypes, is able to come up with something useful - or use random luck. This happened to Muscovite Nastya Rodimova. At the age of 10, she became the youngest owner of a patent for her own invention. The girl came up with a new way of printed graphics. The invention was made by accident: she left a monotype on the window with a piece of paper superimposed on it. After a few days, the colors faded, and those that were hidden under a piece of paper retained a clear outline and remained bright.

One of the youngest inventors can be called seven-year-old Carter Rowan, who came up with soap with a hole in the middle. One day, while playing in the bathroom, the boy made a hole in the soap so that the slippery piece was comfortable to hold. Parents, having appreciated the convenience of this form of soap, decided to create a family business for the production of children's soap and succeeded quite well in this.

In Yekaterinburg, a twelve-year-old boy, Daniil Shostin, invented a constructor, which consists of only two parts. The peculiarity of the designer is that the parts can be connected to each other in various ways. This allows you to collect cubes, pyramids, balls of any size from the constructor.

The trampoline has not changed in the 86-year history of its existence. The idea of ​​its creation belongs to George Nissen. The invention of a 16-year-old teenager made it possible to perform tricks in the air, starting from the elastic surface of the trampoline.

A lot of childhood inventions have become part of the adult world: the idea of ​​​​creating a snowmobile came to the mind of the Canadian Joseph-Armand Bombardier, when he was only 15 years old, he connected the Ford engine to the sled.

Eight-year-old Alana Myers invented a tool that makes it easier to remove bandages from wounded surfaces. The idea to mix water, soap and lavender soap to make this unpleasant procedure painless came to her in the hospital.

The program that connects the SIM card of a mobile phone and a doorbell was created by 13-year-old teenager Lawrence Rock.
11-year-old Frank Epperson revealed to the people a delicious secret - popsicles.
At the age of 13, a student of one of the Moscow schools, Dmitry Reznikov, developed a toothbrush for astronauts working on the orbital station.
13-year-old Benny Benson designed the Alaska State Flag.
Maxim Lema, at the age of 12, created the BTI robot, which can perform the functions of a measurement engineer.

An unusual car for the brothers Daniel and Ivan Efimenko is not a toy, but a serious invention, albeit one for two. They designed a robotic firefighter who himself must first find the fire, and then put it out. The mechanical fireman copes with his tasks, but the developers are still unhappy and are already deciding how to improve their invention.

You can list children's inventions endlessly, remembering fingerless gloves, and a paper bag with a square bottom, a calculator, plasticine, magnetic wallpaper, a device for frying bacon in a microwave oven and dozens of other inventions. All this was brought into our lives by the brilliant minds of young inventors.

On the Day of Children's Inventions, numerous demonstrations of new inventions, competitions, and awards are held. Inventing is the natural state of all children. Take a closer look at what your children are doing right now - maybe at this very moment they are inventing something completely unusual!
And then on January 17 there will be many more children - inventors celebrating this date.

The exhibition will run until February 6 in room 3-01 - the department of patent and technical documentation. In preparation, we used the databases of the department "Patents of Russia" and "Inventions of the countries of the world".

1 . It turns out that plasticine was invented by a schoolgirl - the granddaughter of the famous manufacturer of wallpaper cleaner Cleo McVicker. It was designed to clean the wallpaper from coal dust. The girl suggested using this tool for the game. The cleaning component was removed from its composition, almond oil and dyes were added.

2. The idea of ​​​​creating fur earmuffs to protect against the cold belongs to 15-year-old American Chester Greenwood, who loved to skate and listen to music at the same time.

4. Braille (a raised dotted tactile font designed to be written and read by blind people) was developed by a French teenager, the 15-year-old son of a shoemaker, Louis Braille. The boy was blind from the age of 3, and he took the “night font” of artillery captain Charles Barbier as the basis of his font, which was used by the military of that time to read reports in the dark.

5. The toy tilt-back truck was invented and even patented by six-year-old Robert Patch, who drew this design so that his father would make him such a machine.

6. The idea of ​​creating a trampoline belongs to the 16-year-old gymnast George Nissen.

7. Popsicles - ice cream on a stick - were first made by 11-year-old Frank Epperson.

8. 12-year-old Maxim Lema from Lvov created a robot that performs the functions of BTI engineers. The robot scans the room, measures the area and transmits the data to the computer using a radio signal.

9. 16-year-old Vadim Khomich from Zhitomir came up with a device that blocks a car with a drunk driver.

10. Dmitry Reznikov, a 13-year-old student of one of the Moscow schools, has developed, together with specialists from the State Medical and Dental University, a unique toothbrush designed specifically for astronauts working on the orbital station.

11. 13-year-old schoolgirl Mallory Cuveman from Manchester, USA, has invented a new cure for hiccups. The composition of the new medicine included the usual lollipops, sugar and apple cider vinegar. The novelty has already received the name "Hiccupops".

12. 10-year-old Muscovite Anastasia Rodimina became the youngest owner of a patent for her own invention. The girl invented a new way of printed graphics.

13. 8-year-old Alanna Myers of Dunedin, Florida invented a painless bandage removal tool. The product contains soap, lavender oil and water. This idea was prompted by the need to remove the bandages after being discharged from the hospital.

14. Clara Leisen, a 10-year-old US resident, came up with an unusual combination of nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon as part of her teacher's "Invent a New Molecule" task. It is this mutual arrangement that no one has ever demonstrated before a ten-year-old child. And, although the discovery of a new molecule happened quite by accident, the name of a young American is now on the list of authors of a work published in a scientific journal.

15. 13-year-old Lawrence Rock from Britain earned $250,000 by inventing a call that homeowners receive on their cell phones when they are away. Lawrence Rock invented, in fact, a program that managed to connect the SIM card of the owner's mobile phone and the doorbell.

Having a rubric about inventions on this blog, I have already touched on the topic of inventions made by children a couple of times. The most famous of them were revealed in the articles "Taylor Wilson - created the atomic bomb at the age of ten" and.

Another note is also devoted to the American schoolboy - fifteen-year-old Jack Andrak and his invention, where he talked about the creation of an extra cheap and ultra-fast tester, which, with an almost one hundred percent guarantee, allows you to determine the onset of an oncological disease.

Nothing more on the topic of children's inventions was reflected on the blog pages. Today I decided to fill this gap and add a few short stories about inventions made by children.

1. Painless bandage remover

came up with of course the girl and at the age of only eight years. it Anna Myers.

Anna came up with the idea after she had to remove her bandages from her wounds. The essence of the invention is an ointment consisting of soap, lavender oil and water. Everything is simple and ... ingenious!

2. Ice cream "fruit ice"

One evening an 11 year old boy named Frank Epperson forgot a glass of soda on the porch, in which there was a stick for stirring the powder. The temperature was below freezing and by morning the water was frozen. This is how the first popsicles were made.

Epperson, like many Americans, turned out to be enterprising and 18 years later he patented the find, creating a trade in frozen lemonade. It happened back in 1923.

3.Trampoline

Invented the gymnast George Nissen when he was 16 years old. Since the invention (more than 80 years have passed), the trampoline has not undergone design changes.

4. Room measuring robot

Invented Lviv boy Maxim Lem when he was only 12 years old. Such a robot replaces the work of BTI engineers. The robot scans the room, measures the area, draws up a plan and transfers all the data to the computer.

5. Device for the hearing impaired

Such a device was created by a 14-year-old John Comte. The principle of operation of Good Vibration is based on the transformation of tactile sensations into sound. The idea came to Comte in a very original way: he touched the guitar with his teeth and realized that tactile relationships can be transformed into sound ones. Thanks to this invention, the deaf can feel the music.

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Imagine that this well-known font, with which the blind can read, was invented by a 15-year-old boy! This font was given the name of its inventor - braille. The invention was based on the so-called "night font" used by the military. Artillery captain Charles Barbier used "night script" to read reports in the dark.

7. snowmobile

At the age of 15, a snowmobile was invented by a Canadian boy named Joseph Armand Bombardier. It all started when Joseph was given an old Ford by his father for his fifteenth birthday. As befits an inventive mind, Joseph took it apart, and then made a snowmobile out of it.

As an adult, Bombardier created the Bombardier company for the production of aircraft and snowmobiles. The company no longer produces aircraft, but still makes snowmobiles.

8. Energy-intensive batteries for mobile phones

Developed by an 18-year-old schoolgirl from California Eisha Khare. The energy in new batteries fills up very quickly (only 20-30 seconds), but it lasts much longer than usual. For this invention, the girl received an international award for young scientists from Intel.

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The first televisions worked on mechanical modules, and modern television owes its existence to the inventions of a 15-year-old Philo Francouta. First, Philo gave his chemistry teacher a project for electronic transmission of images over long distances, and then he himself created a cathode ray tube in which phosphorus glows under the influence of electrons emitted by the tube. This is how the prototype of the modern TV kinescope appeared. In 1927, Philo Francout made the first transmission of an electronic image over a distance. It was just a horizontal line. Well, then, let's go!

Of course, I did not give all examples of inventions made by children and chose the most famous ones in this note. The reader is invited to add to this list.

Members "Cities of Professions" visited the Masterburg Research Institute and became inventors themselves. The most daring shared their inventions with us and the world saw ear plugs, an improved machine with a rubber motor and a pancake-eating robot. I think the inventions of our participants will inspire you to be creative, invent and discover with children. Maybe the inventive vein is dormant in your child and is just waiting for the right moment to show talent in all its diversity.

Ahead, in the city of professions, an acquaintance with the construction professions awaited us. Therefore, we decided to invent something that will be useful to us at a construction site. The son, like all boys, probably loves to watch special equipment very much, fortunately, there are enough construction sites in the city. So, he noticed that the construction site is usually very noisy. It would be nice to have something to protect your ears. So the idea came up to make ear plugs.

We needed:

• 2 plastic bottles with caps;
• mouse pad (you can use a dish sponge, foam rubber, foam rubber and even cotton wool);
• thread with a needle;
• wire;
• elastic;
• scissors.

From plastic bottles cut off the top.

On the mouse pad, draw two circles with a diameter slightly larger than the cut diameter of the bottles. With a thread, as it were, we sew these circles to the bottles - we sew the circles and stretch the threads into the neck of the bottles, for fixing, we fasten the tail of the thread with a lid.

We connect the received ear protectors with a wire like headphones. We didn’t have a thick wire, so we additionally connected it with an elastic band that needs to be hooked under the chin.

But in principle, with the right selection of wire, the device should work without gum. All. The earplugs are ready. It is possible to start noisy work on our playground or even real home renovations. The device really dampens loud sounds.

Jaromir 4 years old, mother Anastasia Kalinkova, St. Petersburg.

I must say that this task turned out to be more difficult than the others, since we could not figure out what to invent such a thing. Finally, I came across the following video:

And we also decided to make a car on a rubber motor. And since our dad is an avid racer, he proposed to improve this invention and make it more durable.

Tired of the mess in the nursery? Tired of endlessly collecting toys for the child?

For a car on a rubber motor, we needed:

• strips of plastic of different lengths (two long for sides and three short for internal partitions);
• three wheels (dad donated old wheels from his models);
• two pencils;
• small screw;
• two rubber bands.

In long strips we make holes for pencils, we put wheels on them. To make the structure strong, we tighten the sides with the help of transverse partitions. We wrap electrical tape on the rear axle-pencil to prevent shifts to the right and left. Glue a screw on the same pencil in the middle using a thermal gun. We attach an elastic band to the front partition.

Since the car is large and the elastic band is short, we lengthen it with another elastic band. Now we hook the rubber band onto the screw, roll the machine back so that the elastic band wraps around the pencil and stretches, and then we release it, and voila - the car drove on the rubber motor!

Olga with her daughter Sophia and her husband Andrey from Moscow.

Robot - pancake eater

My kids are still small, so it was difficult for them to come up with an invention on their own. Mom helped. We just baked a whole stack of pancakes, but we can’t overpower it. So we have a charming pancake-eating robot in our house. He eats with great appetite and not only. He will not refuse porridge or tasteless soup. Breakfast, lunch or dinner with him has become more fun.

To make it, we needed a box of cake. We had a small one from a half-kilogram cake. It is also very convenient to wear it on the head as a hat of some hero, if decorated accordingly. We took colored paper for the eyes, mouth, nose and hair and glued it to the lid of the cake with adhesive tape. Instead of hands, the pancake eater has small spoons.

Initially, the pancake eater was conceived as a pancake disposal robot, but suddenly it turned into a motivator, and the pancakes were no longer eaten by a robot, but by children.

By the way, in such an unusual way, you can decorate the box with the cake itself when serving it on the table, for example. You just need to choose the right plot. It is made very quickly and from the most affordable materials.

Oksana Demidova and children Fedya 4 years old and Anya 1.4 years old, St. Petersburg.

Have you tried anything with your child? Share in the comments!

Most of us are not accustomed to taking children's ideas seriously. And in vain, because the younger generation has repeatedly pleased the world with useful inventions, which greatly simplified the lives of many people. We will talk about the most famous children's inventions that brought their creators worldwide fame and non-childish monetary rewards.

1. Toy dump truck

It is not known when the first toys created in the likeness of dump trucks and other production machines would have appeared, if not for six-year-old Robert Patch. The boy was so fascinated by the huge tilt cars that he only painted them. His father made a toy based on one of his son's drawings and made the right decision - soon such toy cars became popular.

2. A tool that allows you to remove bandages without pain

Eight-year-old Alanna Myers often knocked down her knees, and therefore faced the problem of removing bandages that stuck to healing skin. After being discharged from the hospital, the girl, who was again bandaged, came up with a special mixture that avoids discomfort. A simple remedy of soap, water and lavender essence has already relieved the pain of many people.

3. A new kind of printed graphics

Ten-year-old Anastasia Rodimina showed great interest in drawing with the help of inkblotography. Once the girl forgot her drawing on the window in a pile of blank sheets. Over time, the colors faded along the edges, and the part of the drawing that remained covered retained its brightness. Inspired by such metamorphoses, the girl boasted of the drawing to her grandfather, who appreciated the new method of creating paintings and helped patent the invention.

4. Fruit ice

Eleven-year-old Frank Epperson accidentally left his soda on the street while rushing home on a winter evening. Due to the low temperature, the consistency in the glass turned into ice. Since the tube remained in the glass, the contents could be easily removed. A new kind of ice cream inspired the boy to start a business when he grew up.

5. Room-measuring robot

Twelve-year-old Maxim Lema has always been interested in robots. The boy believed that these machines could not only destroy and intimidate, but also be useful. So a young inventor from Lviv created a robot that can measure the area of ​​a room using radio signals. Such an assistant is now simply indispensable, which was noted by the jury of the competition for young inventors.

6. Lozenges for hiccups

Thirteen-year-old Mallory Cuveman realized in time that nursery rhymes did nothing to help her hiccups. Deciding to invent a universal cure for this scourge, the girl developed delicious pills - sugar and apple cider vinegar candies that do a great job with hiccups.

7. A device for those who are hard of hearing

Playing around with the guitar, fourteen-year-old Jonah Cohn developed a brilliant idea. The boy figured out how to let people who have hearing problems enjoy music. A little later, Jonah introduced the world to a device that transforms sound waves into tactile sensations.

8. Braille

Fifteen-year-old Louis Braille, having become acquainted with a special "night type" used in military affairs, developed his own. Thus, the boy allowed millions of blind people to receive the necessary information through reading.

9. Earmuffs

Fifteen-year-old Chester Greenwood has always loved skating. But from a long ride, his ears began to freeze. Since the boy did not like hats, he asked his grandmother to build special fur earmuffs that would protect his ears from the cold. The boy's acquaintances and friends liked this accessory so much that the invention quickly began to spread in many copies.

10. Snowmobile

At the age of fifteen, Joseph-Armand Bombardier had the opportunity to invent. The father handed his son an old "Ford T", which was not in the best condition. Realizing that nothing good would come of it anyway, the boy decided to experiment. After disassembling his Ford into parts, he improved it, turning it into the first snowmobile.

11. A new method for diagnosing cancer

Talented Jack Andraka has always been interested in methods of diagnosing cancer, because it is one of the most difficult diseases. After analyzing the known techniques, the boy invented his own already at the age of fifteen! His methodology includes a test that is an order of magnitude more economical and more efficient than analogues that have been used previously.

12. Electronic picture transmission

Philo Farnsworth's youth came at a time when the TV functioned on mechanical modules. The boy always believed that this was far from the limit and actively worked to improve television. As soon as Philo was fifteen years old, he presented to the schoolteacher a development that involved electronic transmission of pictures over impressive distances.

13. Trampoline

Sixteen-year-old gymnast John Nissen thought for a long time about how to diversify his training and performances. And then a brilliant idea dawned on him: the guy used a stable construction with a stretched panel. This building attracted such attention that it soon went on sale. By the way, today it has practically not undergone any changes and exists in its original form.

14. Mobile batteries

Eisha Khare, like other eighteen-year-olds, suffered from a problem with charging her phone - young people love to talk and surf the Internet, and charging sits too quickly. A girl who is fond of nanochemistry took this problem seriously and soon presented a unique battery that can fully charge the phone in half a minute. Aisha was well rewarded as she really made a breakthrough and got a lot of developers interested.

15. Personal submarine

After reading sci-fi stories, 18-year-old Justin Beckerman decided to try his hand at inventions and build his own submarine. Using a large diameter pipe, the guy built a small submarine in which you can dive to a depth of several meters. You can stay in such a submarine for about several hours.