step aside adults the children have got
this welcome to watchmojo.com and today
we’re counting down our picks for the
top 10 things you never knew were
invented by kids
before we begin we publish new videos
every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
familiar objects that were thought up
and invented by kids
don’t worry teens you’re included too
number 10 the popsicle Frank Epperson
popsicles here can’t mourn the dead
without a popsicle
you’re the reason not to tell your kids
to clean up in 1905 after mixing soda
powder and water in a cup with a stir
stick eleven-year-old Frank Epperson of
San Francisco abandoned his concoction
on the porch for the night the weather
dropped to record lows for the city and
the next day Everson realized he created
a pretty cool treat he then let the
concept live for 18 years before
marketing and patenting it as the epical
in 1923
it was later changed to popsicle after
his children referred to it as popsicle
today over 2 billion popsicles are sold
each year and are a summer must number 9
ear muffs Chester Greenwood I gotta say
you’re must to him earmuffs the coals to
blame for this invention – in 1873 while
ice-skating in Farmington Maine 15 year
old Chester Greenwood was bothered by
his cold ears allergic to the wool used
in then-popular hat with earflaps
Greenwood got creative he took wire
shaped it into circles and then asked
his grandmother – so what was either
flannel or beaver fur on to them
anywhere near musk or inside anyway
because I got a chilly and I thought it
might get sick he patented the idea by
age 19 and earmuffs would go on to be
used by American soldiers in World War 1
current residents of Farmington now hold
a parade to celebrate Greenwood and his
invention which is still seen as an
effective way to warm our ears your mom
how did you ever think of it I knew
cotton wouldn’t crack number eight the
hot seat
Alyssa Chavez
from science fair project to potentially
life-saving consumer child care products
this small pad with a sensor can be
placed by parents under an infant
booster or car feet yes it’s this pad
right here okay and it can be placed in
any infant toddler or booster seat if
the parent then walks further than 20
feet from the car an alarm will sound on
their phone and keychain the car can
also be equipped with an alarm to alert
people nearby that there is an
unattended infant in the vehicle growing
up very close to children in her
mother’s daycare 17 year-old Alyssa
Chavez got the idea after researching
the grim statistics of child hot car
deaths well we’re not leaving a baby in
the car
they’ll be fine I cracked the window the
product now patented is available
through her company asilah number seven
the water talkie Ritchie stakhovski
snorkeling can give you access to some
on firing underwater sites the only
problem you can’t communicate with your
friends until you’re back on the surface
by subject yeah having experienced this
frustration firsthand on a trip to
Hawaii
eleven-year-old Ritchie Stachowski
decided to find a solution after
researching how sound travels under
water and some experimentation he
created the water talkie a simple but
effective device that lets people talk
to each other up to 15 feet away
underwater following his pitch toys-r-us
ordered fifty thousand water talkies and
Stachowski
opened his own company shortstack LLC
three years and a few products later he
sold it for a reported seven million
dollars number six all electronic
television Philo Farnsworth when you
hear farm boy you rarely think great
with electronics but Philo Farnsworth is
considered one of the inventors of
electronic TV coming up with the idea
for an image dissector at age 15 at the
time mechanical televisions worked by
scanning pictures through a wheel with
holes that would spin around
but Farnsworth wanted to scan images in
a line pattern instead what was their
contribution was to take out the moving
parts and make this an entire
he actually got the idea from the lines
he would create while plowing fields as
a 21 year old he finished building the
dissector he later won a lengthy patent
lawsuit with RCA and after his death was
inducted into the National Inventors
Hall of Fame number five the modern
snowmobile Josef almond bumblebee age
living in rural Quebec in the early
1900s
Josep almond bombardier was always a
tinkerer it’ll take more than a couple
of screws in a box of Springs to repair
your father’s watch my boy given an old
Model T engine at age fifteen ba-ba-ba
worked on it with his brother and in
1922 came up with his first snowmobile
well it was just a sled and propeller
powered by the Model T engine but it was
a start
he later significantly improved the
design swapping out the propeller for
caterpillar tracks and began marketing a
multi passenger vehicle in the 1930s and
40s in the 1950s he got back to his
initial dream producing the lightweight
more motorcycle sized variety of skidoo
that’s still used today number four the
trampoline george Nissen yes feel like I
could really turn over in 1930 after
watching trapeze artists fall into their
safety nets sixteen year old George
Kniffin a high school gymnast thought it
would be cool if the nets allowed the
acrobats to bounce back up again and
again so he went out and found a
rectangular metal frame stretched canvas
over it and created what he dubbed the
bouncing rig we don’t want to see how
the trial and error testing went for
this one later in university his coach
Gary Griswold helped him perfect his
model while they traveled the Southwest
United States together they learned the
Spanish word for diving board trampoline
and adopted this word for the invention
thirty Seconds on this thing and I
already feel yes you’ve been up there
for an hour number three the calculator
Blaise Pascal sure philosophers might
know him from Pascal’s wager but this
child prodigy gave us something the
whole world can appreciate the
calculator in 1642 at age 18
Pascal wanted to help his father
calculate
taxes and came up with Pascal’s
calculator later renamed Pascaline it
could add or subtract two numbers and
repeat to produce multiplication or
division he released it to the public in
1645 and four years later the king gave
him the patent
unfortunately the calculator was quite
heavy expensive and known for mechanical
fault and thus never saw commercial
success others created calculating
machines before and after but Pascal is
regarded as the father of the mechanical
calculator Oh daddy the calculated
number to the pancreatic cancer
nanotubes test Jack andraka 15 year-old
Jack andraka invented something that may
very well save tens of thousands of
lives because of the lack of funding for
the less prevalent pancreatic cancers
ELISA the detection method was expensive
unreliable and hadn’t been updated in
over 60 years with the recent discovery
of carbon nanotubes however aundrea and
his mentor at Johns Hopkins University
were able to create a more reliable test
at a fraction of the cost I did not
expect for it to be this good at
detecting pancreatic cancer antibodies
will stop his initial idea was
reportedly rejected by 199 labs before
one professor gave him a chance he went
on to win the youth achievement
Smithsonian American ingenuity award and
$75,000 at the Intel International
Science and Engineering Fair before we
unveil our number one pick here are some
honorable mentions
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number one the Braille alphabet Louis
Braille having lost his vision in a
childhood accident Louie Braille
attended a school for the blind the
books had raised letters so the students
could learn with their fingers but this
caused the books to be bulky and
expensive in search of a more effective
alternative Braille learned a military
code called Knight writing by 1824 he
had developed a similar but simplified
style of code based on six dots he was
just 15 years old at the time today
there’s an estimated two hundred and
eighty five million visually impaired
people in the world rails code has been
translated into many languages making
the written word more efficient and
accessible for the visually impaired
across the globe here give me your hand
it’s been this book belong to do you
agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from WatchMojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
[Music]
this welcome to watchmojo.com and today
we’re counting down our picks for the
top 10 things you never knew were
invented by kids
before we begin we publish new videos
every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
familiar objects that were thought up
and invented by kids
don’t worry teens you’re included too
number 10 the popsicle Frank Epperson
popsicles here can’t mourn the dead
without a popsicle
you’re the reason not to tell your kids
to clean up in 1905 after mixing soda
powder and water in a cup with a stir
stick eleven-year-old Frank Epperson of
San Francisco abandoned his concoction
on the porch for the night the weather
dropped to record lows for the city and
the next day Everson realized he created
a pretty cool treat he then let the
concept live for 18 years before
marketing and patenting it as the epical
in 1923
it was later changed to popsicle after
his children referred to it as popsicle
today over 2 billion popsicles are sold
each year and are a summer must number 9
ear muffs Chester Greenwood I gotta say
you’re must to him earmuffs the coals to
blame for this invention – in 1873 while
ice-skating in Farmington Maine 15 year
old Chester Greenwood was bothered by
his cold ears allergic to the wool used
in then-popular hat with earflaps
Greenwood got creative he took wire
shaped it into circles and then asked
his grandmother – so what was either
flannel or beaver fur on to them
anywhere near musk or inside anyway
because I got a chilly and I thought it
might get sick he patented the idea by
age 19 and earmuffs would go on to be
used by American soldiers in World War 1
current residents of Farmington now hold
a parade to celebrate Greenwood and his
invention which is still seen as an
effective way to warm our ears your mom
how did you ever think of it I knew
cotton wouldn’t crack number eight the
hot seat
Alyssa Chavez
from science fair project to potentially
life-saving consumer child care products
this small pad with a sensor can be
placed by parents under an infant
booster or car feet yes it’s this pad
right here okay and it can be placed in
any infant toddler or booster seat if
the parent then walks further than 20
feet from the car an alarm will sound on
their phone and keychain the car can
also be equipped with an alarm to alert
people nearby that there is an
unattended infant in the vehicle growing
up very close to children in her
mother’s daycare 17 year-old Alyssa
Chavez got the idea after researching
the grim statistics of child hot car
deaths well we’re not leaving a baby in
the car
they’ll be fine I cracked the window the
product now patented is available
through her company asilah number seven
the water talkie Ritchie stakhovski
snorkeling can give you access to some
on firing underwater sites the only
problem you can’t communicate with your
friends until you’re back on the surface
by subject yeah having experienced this
frustration firsthand on a trip to
Hawaii
eleven-year-old Ritchie Stachowski
decided to find a solution after
researching how sound travels under
water and some experimentation he
created the water talkie a simple but
effective device that lets people talk
to each other up to 15 feet away
underwater following his pitch toys-r-us
ordered fifty thousand water talkies and
Stachowski
opened his own company shortstack LLC
three years and a few products later he
sold it for a reported seven million
dollars number six all electronic
television Philo Farnsworth when you
hear farm boy you rarely think great
with electronics but Philo Farnsworth is
considered one of the inventors of
electronic TV coming up with the idea
for an image dissector at age 15 at the
time mechanical televisions worked by
scanning pictures through a wheel with
holes that would spin around
but Farnsworth wanted to scan images in
a line pattern instead what was their
contribution was to take out the moving
parts and make this an entire
he actually got the idea from the lines
he would create while plowing fields as
a 21 year old he finished building the
dissector he later won a lengthy patent
lawsuit with RCA and after his death was
inducted into the National Inventors
Hall of Fame number five the modern
snowmobile Josef almond bumblebee age
living in rural Quebec in the early
1900s
Josep almond bombardier was always a
tinkerer it’ll take more than a couple
of screws in a box of Springs to repair
your father’s watch my boy given an old
Model T engine at age fifteen ba-ba-ba
worked on it with his brother and in
1922 came up with his first snowmobile
well it was just a sled and propeller
powered by the Model T engine but it was
a start
he later significantly improved the
design swapping out the propeller for
caterpillar tracks and began marketing a
multi passenger vehicle in the 1930s and
40s in the 1950s he got back to his
initial dream producing the lightweight
more motorcycle sized variety of skidoo
that’s still used today number four the
trampoline george Nissen yes feel like I
could really turn over in 1930 after
watching trapeze artists fall into their
safety nets sixteen year old George
Kniffin a high school gymnast thought it
would be cool if the nets allowed the
acrobats to bounce back up again and
again so he went out and found a
rectangular metal frame stretched canvas
over it and created what he dubbed the
bouncing rig we don’t want to see how
the trial and error testing went for
this one later in university his coach
Gary Griswold helped him perfect his
model while they traveled the Southwest
United States together they learned the
Spanish word for diving board trampoline
and adopted this word for the invention
thirty Seconds on this thing and I
already feel yes you’ve been up there
for an hour number three the calculator
Blaise Pascal sure philosophers might
know him from Pascal’s wager but this
child prodigy gave us something the
whole world can appreciate the
calculator in 1642 at age 18
Pascal wanted to help his father
calculate
taxes and came up with Pascal’s
calculator later renamed Pascaline it
could add or subtract two numbers and
repeat to produce multiplication or
division he released it to the public in
1645 and four years later the king gave
him the patent
unfortunately the calculator was quite
heavy expensive and known for mechanical
fault and thus never saw commercial
success others created calculating
machines before and after but Pascal is
regarded as the father of the mechanical
calculator Oh daddy the calculated
number to the pancreatic cancer
nanotubes test Jack andraka 15 year-old
Jack andraka invented something that may
very well save tens of thousands of
lives because of the lack of funding for
the less prevalent pancreatic cancers
ELISA the detection method was expensive
unreliable and hadn’t been updated in
over 60 years with the recent discovery
of carbon nanotubes however aundrea and
his mentor at Johns Hopkins University
were able to create a more reliable test
at a fraction of the cost I did not
expect for it to be this good at
detecting pancreatic cancer antibodies
will stop his initial idea was
reportedly rejected by 199 labs before
one professor gave him a chance he went
on to win the youth achievement
Smithsonian American ingenuity award and
$75,000 at the Intel International
Science and Engineering Fair before we
unveil our number one pick here are some
honorable mentions
[Music]
number one the Braille alphabet Louis
Braille having lost his vision in a
childhood accident Louie Braille
attended a school for the blind the
books had raised letters so the students
could learn with their fingers but this
caused the books to be bulky and
expensive in search of a more effective
alternative Braille learned a military
code called Knight writing by 1824 he
had developed a similar but simplified
style of code based on six dots he was
just 15 years old at the time today
there’s an estimated two hundred and
eighty five million visually impaired
people in the world rails code has been
translated into many languages making
the written word more efficient and
accessible for the visually impaired
across the globe here give me your hand
it’s been this book belong to do you
agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from WatchMojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
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