Mattina gelida nel parco giochi per bambini locale, lunghe ombre e stuoie in gomma. Alberi e aria fresca, divertimento all'aperto, scivolo per bambini, scivolo in metallo.
3456 x 5184 px | 29,3 x 43,9 cm | 11,5 x 17,3 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
14 gennaio 2012
Ubicazione:
lincoln
Altre informazioni:
Made of stainless steel, these slides provide ultimate safety to the kids, as they have perfectly finished edges. Wicksteed Park in Kettering was home to the world's first playground slide. Historians have discovered photographs of the world's first children's slide, which was built 90 years ago at Kettering’s Wicksteed Park. Built in 1922 from a plank of wood, the slide had no sides or safety surface of the kind we're used to today.The photographs show children climbing up a steep, four-meter ladder, before pushing themselves down the wooden slide. Park owner Charles Wicksteed designed the slides for the park and later manufactured and sold them across the world.Initially, there were separate slides for girls and boys at Wicksteed, which were clearly labeled as such. This separation was common in playgrounds, however, Charles pioneered to close the gender divide.In 1928 he wrote, “I thought I would make a slide: first for the boys.Legacy: Mr Wicksteed's inventions and legacy lives on in his park which still attracts thousands of visitors every year By 1929 Wicksteed’s slide had become his most popular piece of play equipment. He developed the design so it was now made from steel and wood with a flat length at the end as we have today, so that children could slow down without shooting straight onto the ground.He said: 'These up-to-date slides... are curved at the bottom, ending in an almost horizontal plank of sufficient length to reduce the speed at the end of the slide to such an extent as to effectually prevent any danger i “This was so much appreciated that I made a better one for the girls: the boys got jealous of this, so I made a still better one for them. “At that time I had a quaint idea that the boys and girls ought to be separated.”
