Like everything else in the world, a bounce house has a history of how it came about. Do you recall the first day you set your eyes on one? As a kid, it excited you. Do you remember how uncertainty and the urge to jump in had overwhelmed you? Do you recall how happy you were by the second jump? How you had proved hard-headed when the time for going home had arrived and how you cried all the way home? Do you remember? The points that follow show how these bounce houses came to be.
The Background Of The Mastermind
John Scurlock was a student at Texas A&M’s electrical engineer program when he was selected to join the US Army. He was the brains behind the bounce house. After world war three occurred, he had to go back to school, where he completed his course in Bachelor of Science and Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering. The Army was pleased with him, and he was called one more time in Germany. After his stay there, he went back to his college in Texas, where he became the Directorate of the Physics Department. He used all the knowledge and skills he had acquired in school and ended up being an inventor of many things—for example, the amusement ride. The amusement ride is still used today for recreational purposes. John was not only an inventor but also a contributor to NASA’s inventions. He also helped the oil and gas industry.
The Idea Of Inventing The Inflatable Cover
Scurlock’s initial idea was to make an inflatable cover that was to be put on his tennis court. Which later developed into bounce houses. He later observed that his workers could not get the hang of jumping on it. It was too hard for them to resist it. He then decided to make his Space Walks. His wife, who was called Frances, soon realized that the demand for Space Walks was high. She then decided that it was going to be used to get the desired profit to sustain the family.
Features Of A Bounce House
It was not until the 1960s when the spacewalks had walls and also had their name changed to Moonwalks. That is the current day bouncing castle. Initially, it was flat without any walls to sustain the people inside it. He also came up with tents, amongst many other inventions. The Moonwalks originally became renowned in the 1980s after John’s son opened an indoor fun center in Louisiana. From then, these bouncing castles have been used, especially by kids-in birthdays or parties.
The above points have been used to summarize the invention of bounce houses. John Scurlock came up with other inventions such as the inflatable rescue pads that are used by firefighters in an event whereby people have been stranded by fire in tall buildings for landing purposes-this was rendered the greatest of all his inventions. He was also the man behind the innovation of signs and inflatable domes. The spacewalks were made in 1959.