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It is possible that many experiments with fundamental bodily principles were first realized in the form of shifting Toys known via literary description. Explosive toy weapons and rockets developed from the early use of gunpowder for fireworks by the Chinese. Balance and counterbalance, the wheel, the swing, the pendulum, flight, centrifugal drive, magnetism, the spring, and a giant number of different devices and ideas have been utilized in toys.