Inventions from imagination
Every time you see a someone bounding on a trampoline, decorating a Christmas tree, or putting on earmuffs, you can thank the creativity of a kid or teenager! These kids had some brilliant ideas about how to fix common problems – or just make things more fun! – and they made them a reality. Here are some things you see all the time that were dreamed up by kids.
Trampoline
If you love to bounce, you can thank George Nissen. At age 16, he invented the trampoline after watching trapeze artists drop into the safety nets beneath them. He thought it would be cooler if they could bounce out of the net instead. The trampoline turns 90 years old this year; it was invented way back in 1930.
Makin Bacon
A lack of paper towels helped inspire Abbey Fleck to create a new way to make crispy bacon fast. When her family didn’t have paper towels to soak up the excess grease from microwave cooked bacon one Saturday morning in 1993, the eight-year-old decided to figure out a better way to cook bacon. After a little trial and error, she came up with the Makin Bacon, a microwave-safe stand that allows you to drape bacon over it as you cook. The bacon is able to crisp up while the bacon fat pools in a bowl underneath it. Her brilliant idea helped make her a millionaire as a teenager.