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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. 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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[edit] History
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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- ^ USA National Security Agency (19 April 2005). "Pioneering Data - A Little History of the Pinwheel (SR12)". Archived from the original on 2007-07-13. http://web.archive.org/web/20070713105933/http://www.nsa.gov/teachers/es/data84.pdf. Retrieved 2007-07-07.
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