what is the name for...

[dubdobdee]

... this kind of climbing frame?



update: better pic for working out what i mean (the top one is a better photo qua photo)


also: are they still made?

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[koganbot]

Actually it is the other way around. The comic strip didn't begin until 1934, whereas the "Junglegym" was patented by Sebastion Hinton in 1920 (invented for the nursery school of his wife Carmelita Hinton, who a decade and a half later founded the Putney School). Sebastian Hinton committed suicide in 1923.

[koganbot]

(This according to Wiki, anyway.)

a disapppointed man

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"Hinton's chief goal, however, was to enable children to achieve an intuitive understanding of 3-dimensional space through a game in which numbers for the x,y, and z axes were called out and each child tried to be the first to grasp the indicated junction. Thus the abstraction of Cartesian coordinates could be grasped as a name of a tangible point in space."

oddly enuff, this topic arose bcz i was trying to dream up a nice clear image to explain the idea of euclidean pace to a total non-mathematician, and wonder if "a climbing frame infinitely extended in all directions" would to do job

(it wouldn't because there are too many difft geometries of climbing frame/monkey bars/jungle gyms to be immediately clear)