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Tinkertoys have been used to construct complex machines, including Danny Hillis's tic-tac-toe-playing computer (now in the collection of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California) and a robot at Cornell University in 1998. One of Tinkertoy’s distinctive features is the toy’s packaging.
Tinkers is a 2009 first novel by American author Paul Harding. The novel tells the stories of George Washington Crosby, an elderly clock repairman, and of his father, Howard. On his deathbed, George remembers his father, who was a tinker selling household goods from a donkey-drawn cart and who struggled with epilepsy. [1]
Tinkers may refer to: An alternate (and often pejorative) name for the itinerant groups in Europe , including Irish Travellers , Scottish Travellers , and Romani people The plural of tinker , an archaic term for an itinerant tinsmith who mends household utensils
Although tinker's curse is attested in 1824, which was thought to be earlier than tinker's dam, [4] "tinkers damn" is attested in 1823. [6] An alternative derivation is that a tinker's curse or cuss was considered of little significance, possibly because tinkers (who worked with their hands near hot metal) were reputed to swear (curse ...
A Karo man holding a bow and arrow. The bow and arrow is a ranged weapon system consisting of an elastic launching device (bow) and long-shafted projectiles (arrows). Humans used bows and arrows for hunting and aggression long before recorded history, and the practice was common to many prehistoric cultures.
Toy Tinkers is an American animated short film produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions and released to theaters on December 16, 1949 by RKO Radio Pictures. [1] Set during Christmas time , the film shows Chip 'n' Dale trying to steal nuts from Donald Duck's home using toy weapons.
Japanese bows, arrows, and arrow-stand Yumi bow names. Yumi is the Japanese term for a bow.As used in English, yumi refers more specifically to traditional Japanese asymmetrical bows, and includes the longer daikyū and the shorter hankyū used in the practice of kyūdō and kyūjutsu, or Japanese archery.
"Baseball's Sad Lexicon," also known as "Tinker to Evers to Chance" after its refrain, is a 1910 baseball poem by Franklin Pierce Adams. The eight-line poem is presented as a single, rueful stanza from the point of view of a New York Giants fan watching the Chicago Cubs infield of shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance complete a double play.