A beloved piece of playground equipment turns 100 years old this week. ALL THINGS CONSIDERED producer Matt Ozug has our story. MATT OZUG, BYLINE: When I read that the patent for the jungle gym was ...

This story starts in the fourth dimension. Or, more specifically, with a British mathematician who, in the late 1800s, was intrigued by the fourth dimension and how to teach disinterested children ...

Are you unsure what age your child needs to be to play in jungle gyms? Maybe your child is asking to swing from monkey bars or climb up the rock walls, but you aren’t sure if they are ready? Deciding ...

2023 marks 100 years since the patent was approved for the very first jungle gym invented by Winnetkan Sebastian Hinton. Over the last century, the jungle gym's popularity and reach are practically ...

The year 2023 marks 100 years since former Winnetka, Illinois, resident Sebastian Hinton patented his “climbing gym” for children, a playground staple that would later be known as the jungle gym.

For kids, a jungle gym is much more than just a collection of play equipment. Sometimes it's a castle holding the princess in distress and needs their help, or a bunch of floating objects in a deadly ...

In the backyard of the Winnetka Historical Society, behind a fence of manicured hedges, there stands an ancient jungle gym, a monolithic, caramel-color 7-foot tall cube of deliberately spaced sharp ...

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