origins of the yo yo

origins of the yo yo

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edward w pritchard

The Greeks may have invented the yo yo. Pythagoras may have devised the mathematical formula to enable the devise to move up and down.

  Egyptians may have  had a pre-Greek version  of the yo yo. It is thought that once invented the toy was sealed in a tomb, vastly constructed with secret chambers, for use later elsewhere, at great expense.

Babylonians of course discovered the yo yo first, but couldn't perfect the technique. They never got beyond sitting the yo yo on a flat surface and studying it.

Modern Children world over will not touch a mechanical yo yo preferring to spend hours and hours playing the on line computer version,-- up,down.. However in Northern Iraq children often find yo yo's buried in the soil where bombs have fell and will spend hours and hours rediscovering the ancient Babylonian toy.