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To celebrate Kid Inventors' Day, we have collected a few inventions from the past which were hatched in the minds of children. Eleven-year-old Frank Epperson invented the popsicle. On a winter's eve in 1905, Frank forgot to bring inside a fruit-flavoured soft drink that he had left on his porch. He accidentally left the drink outside overnight, with the stirring stick in the glass. The drink froze solid, and a delicious dessert was born. A young gymnast, George Nissen invented the trampoline in 1930, at the age of 16. After seeing trapeze artists drop into the safety net beneath them, he thought it would be exciting to perform tricks while bouncing around. He designed a device for bouncing with a metal frame and a canvas stretched over it with rubber springs. When trampoline gymnastics was made an Olympic sport in 2008, 94-year-old George attended the event as a guest of honour. In 1873 Chester Greenwood was just 15 years old when his ears got painfully cold one day while ice skating. He designed a wire frame and asked his grandmother to sew beaver skins to it – thereby making the first pair of earmuffs. He ended up patenting the invention by age 19 and even selling them to soldiers during the First World War. Canadian Joseph-Armand Bombardier was interested in mechanics and in 1922, at the age of 15, he invented the snowmobile. First, he developed a propeller-driven sleigh, which was the first vehicle that could travel over snow. Later he moved on to cars that he modified with chains and tracks so that they could carry passengers and goods over ice and snow. With the launch of the Ski-Doo in 1959, he created a new recreational sport. In the early 1700s, at age 11, Benjamin Franklin invented swim flippers. He was a keen swimmer and wanted to increase his speed in the water. He designed handheld fins made out of oval-shaped planks of wood with holes in the middle for his hands. Unlike today's modern flippers that are worn on the feet, his swim fins were strapped to the swimmer's hands to make each stroke more efficient.