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Charles Brace Darrow (August 10, 1889 – August 28, 1967) was an American board game designer who is controversially credited as the inventor of the board game Monopoly by Parker Brothers, the game's publisher.
The history of games dates to the ancient human past. [3] Games are an integral part of all cultures and are one of the oldest forms of human social interaction. Games are formalized expressions of play which allow people to go beyond immediate imagination and direct physical activity. Common features of games include uncertainty of outcome ...
Ralph Henry Baer (born Rudolf Heinrich Baer; March 8, 1922 – December 6, 2014) was a German-born [2] American inventor, game developer, and engineer.. Baer's Jewish family fled Germany just before World War II and Baer served the American war effort, gaining an interest in electronics shortly thereafter.
Watermill of Braine-le-Château, Belgium (12th century) Interior of the Lyme Regis watermill, UK (14th century). A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower.It is a structure that uses a water wheel or water turbine to drive a mechanical process such as milling (grinding), rolling, or hammering.
He invented dozens of other toys and games, and had 97 patented inventions. [ 3 ] In 1995, Charles Foley's son, Mark Foley, and Douglas Farley founded Doumar Products Inc. and its heptane -based Un-Du adhesive remover .
Richard Channing Garfield (born June 26, 1963) is an American mathematician, inventor and game designer. Garfield created Magic: The Gathering, which is considered to be the first collectible card game (CCG).
The history of contract bridge may be dated from the early 16th-century invention of trick-taking games such as whist.Bridge departed from whist with the creation of Biritch (or "Russian Whist") in the 19th century, and evolved through the late 19th and early 20th centuries to form the present game.
In his 80s, Butts invented another game, titled simply Alfreds Other Game, [12] released in 1985 by Selchow and Righter. [13] Also a tile-based game, it includes 144 letter tiles and four playing boards. [4] Players receive 36 letters from which they try to make as many word combinations as possible. [14] Butts called it "simultaneous solitaire ...