International holidays - International Day of Children's Inventions (Kid Inventors Day)

January 17 is Children's Invention Day This international holiday is celebrated on the birthday of Benjamin Franklin, whose name was included in the list of outstanding representatives of Humanity by the World Peace Council Benjamin Franklin, a journalist, inventor, scientist, and politician, was at the origins of the founding of the United States as an independent state; he was the first American to become a foreign member of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences (now the Russian Academy of Sciences) The US $100 bill features a portrait of Benjamin Franklin Children's Day - Inventors - this is how the January date sounds in a different interpretation The child inventor was Benjamin Franklin As a child, he invented a simple device to increase the speed of a swimmer, making planks the size of the foot and hand, demonstrating their speed capabilities to his surprised friends Swimmers have been using these devices for three centuries; fins, as B Franklin’s childhood invention is called, are familiar to everyone, even those who have never used them Franklin was not the only child whose childhood invention is actively used in people's lives Every year, thousands of children invent and create wonderful things that confidently take a place in the everyday lives of children and adults Chester Greenwood invented fur earmuffs when he was 15 years old At the age of 16, George Nissen made a trampoline, the design of which has not fundamentally changed to this day 13-year-old Benny Benson created a sketch of the Alaska State Flag Maxim Lema, at the age of 12, created the BTI robot, which can perform the functions of a measuring engineer 11-year-old Frank Epperson revealed a delicious secret to the people - popsicles At the age of 13, Dmitry Reznikov designed a toothbrush for astronauts working on the orbital station A new method of printed graphics was invented by Anastasia Rodimina, and Vadim Khamich invented a device that blocks the ignition of a drunk driver’s car Snowmobile, plasticine, toy truck, mobile battery, Braille It turns out that these are all inventions of children Children's inventions do not have to be known to the whole world How many simple things necessary in everyday life were created by children's hands as a result of unconventional thinking and love for moms and dads Take a closer look at the child Perhaps he's not just lounging around on the couch Who knows, maybe at this very moment he is thinking about the next important invention that will amaze, if not all of Humanity, then his immediate environment Don't interfere, let me think Discoveries are made not only as a result of painstaking work, but also in the process of long reflection In childhood, everyone worked wonders of ingenuity: they came up with plots and rules for new games, made up all sorts of excuses to justify any actions, and created simple devices for all sorts of little things They thought that nothing was impossible and tried to invent incredible things They were invented by those who persistently sought to make their dreams, desires, and goals come true Don't stop children from thinking and creating And then on January 17 there will be many more children - inventors celebrating this date