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The jungle gym, also known as the monkey bars, is a piece of playground equipment made of many pieces of thin material, such as metal pipe or rope, on which children can climb, hang, or sit. The jungle gym was nickednamed "monkey bars" due to the resemblance children playing on the jungle gym had to the that of monkeys playing in the trees.

The first jungle gym was invented in 1920 and patented by lawyer Sebastian Hinton in Chicago. It was sold under the trademarked name Junglegym. The term "monkey bars" was first documented in 1955, though Hinton's initial patent of 1920 appeals to the "monkey instinct" in claiming the benefits of climbing as exercise and play for children. Hinton's chief goal, however, was to enable children to achieve an intuitive understanding of 3-dimensional space through a game in which numbers for the x,y, and z axes were called out and each child tried to be the first to grasp the indicated junction. Thus the abstraction of Cartesian coordinates could be grasped as a name of a tangible point in space. Hinton was a descendant of George Boole, the British mathematician who is remembered today as the inventor of Boolean algebra; other family members contributed to higher-dimensional geometry.

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