FACTOID FRIDAY

I'm thinkingwith yesterday's snow and with the snow expected tonight, it is going to be a great weekend for sledding the kiddos. With that said, today's "FACTOIDS" are about the sled!

• Sleds originally were an important transportation tool that facilitated the movement of goods and people on frozen surfaces where wheels often did not work. In fact, sleds were used to transport heavy cannon in the early years of the Revolution to oust the British from Boston.


• flexible Flyers are the most often recognized brand of sled. The U S Patent Office has a website that specifically recognizes S L Allen and his patents.


• The the flexible flyer sleds had flat runners until about 1907, wooden bumpers until 1915, and straight runners until 1935. An articulated steering bumper came out around 1928,


• "Standard Novelty Works" of Duncannon, PA made the famous Lightning Guider sleds from 1904-1990. The Duncannon factory where the used to make those sleds is now the home of a sled musuem called "The Old Sled Works."