The earliest rubber ducks were made from hard rubber in the mid to late 19th century. after manufacturers began using engineer Charles Goodyear's vulcanized rubber. The ducks were solid and could not float. They were used as chew toys.
Sculptor Peter Ganine created an "uncapsizeable duck" in the 1940s, then patented it and reproduced it as a floating toy, of which over 50,000,000 were sold.
On February 25, 1970, Jim Henson performed the song "Rubber Duckie" as Ernie on Sesame Street, and the rubber duck bath toy has been an iconic American symbol ever since.
In 1992 when a container of yellow rubber ducks, fell into the Pacific Ocean, it allowed scientists to gain insight into a hidden world of ocean currents. Over the years, the ducks washed up on several different continents, revealing a worldwide network of currents, that had been invisible.
In 2001, a British tabloid reported that Queen Elizabeth II had a rubber duck in her bathroom that wore an inflatable crown. Sales of the toy surged 80 percent following the announcement.
In 2002, the Great Singapore Duck Race set a world record of 123,000 rubber ducks taking part in the same event. The last such race was in 2007.
The world's largest rubber duck was created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman in 2007, measuring 16.5 m × 20 m × 32 m (54 ft × 66 ft × 105 ft) and weighing about 600 kilograms (1,300 lb).
The world record for the largest collection of rubber ducks is held by Charlotte Lee of Seattle, Washington, who had 5,631 of them as at April 10, 2011. Charlotte started collecting rubber ducks in 1996 after she found a rubber duck in her hotel room during a business trip. She was so taken with the duck that she started buying more and more of them. She now has rubber ducks from all over the world, including some very rare and valuable ones.
Rubber duck debugging is where computer programmers work out problems in their code by explaining them out loud to a rubber duck.
In 2013 rubber ducks were inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame.
Sculptor Peter Ganine created an "uncapsizeable duck" in the 1940s, then patented it and reproduced it as a floating toy, of which over 50,000,000 were sold.
On February 25, 1970, Jim Henson performed the song "Rubber Duckie" as Ernie on Sesame Street, and the rubber duck bath toy has been an iconic American symbol ever since.
In 1992 when a container of yellow rubber ducks, fell into the Pacific Ocean, it allowed scientists to gain insight into a hidden world of ocean currents. Over the years, the ducks washed up on several different continents, revealing a worldwide network of currents, that had been invisible.
In 2001, a British tabloid reported that Queen Elizabeth II had a rubber duck in her bathroom that wore an inflatable crown. Sales of the toy surged 80 percent following the announcement.
In 2002, the Great Singapore Duck Race set a world record of 123,000 rubber ducks taking part in the same event. The last such race was in 2007.
The world's largest rubber duck was created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman in 2007, measuring 16.5 m × 20 m × 32 m (54 ft × 66 ft × 105 ft) and weighing about 600 kilograms (1,300 lb).
The world record for the largest collection of rubber ducks is held by Charlotte Lee of Seattle, Washington, who had 5,631 of them as at April 10, 2011. Charlotte started collecting rubber ducks in 1996 after she found a rubber duck in her hotel room during a business trip. She was so taken with the duck that she started buying more and more of them. She now has rubber ducks from all over the world, including some very rare and valuable ones.
Charlotte's collection is so large that it takes up an entire room in her house. She has even had to build special shelves to display them all. Charlotte says that she loves collecting rubber ducks because they make her happy. She also says that they are a great way to travel the world without ever leaving her home.
Rubber duck debugging is where computer programmers work out problems in their code by explaining them out loud to a rubber duck.
In 2013 rubber ducks were inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame.
January 13th is National Rubber Ducky Day. It gets its date from Sesame Street, when Ernie said the toy’s birthday was on January 13.
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