The cute and cuddly teddy bear is more than one hundred years. In fact, older than even the First World War and its origins date back to one of the greatest U.S. presidents. Even in its hundred years of history, the humble teddy Europe has taken the world from America to Japan and back. And even if our lives are no easier now drowning in a technology very well, good old Teddy seems more than ever - just Google it! Here are some moreamazing facts of this classic icon of childhood and Century 20.
Bears first for the first time on the literary scene of the story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," written in 1834 by Robert Southey a.
2. The first stuffed bear stuffed animal showed no signs of the scene, when Margarete Steiff patents pending for 23 of his drawings plush, including a dancing bear and a bear handler with a brown bear in 1899.
3. History is made - a merchant of Brooklyn,Morris Michtom sells the world's first 'Teddy's Bear "in his shop in November 1902.
4. In March 1903, filled with over 3,000 toys to take America delivered by the Steiff company in Germany.
5. Bear Toys were "Bruins" in those days. The Bruins appeared in the first ad for the toy trade magazine Playthings American May 1906.
6. In the same year in November, the words "Teddy Bear" for the first time out in another adToys by American producers to EJ Horstmann.
7 "Teddy Bear" was one of the first illustrated books on the popular stuffed animals, Alice Scott, written on the base.
8. In 1907 history was made when the music the music of the famous song, The Teddy Bear's Picnic, JK Bratton was written by American composer. The song was originally called The Teddy Bear Two Step and the texts that we know today and which are not in reality love is the most prolific songwriters and 1932 by BritishJimmy Kennedy.
9. In 1908, the company for the production of JK Farnell teddy bears first English. The company was originally in London Notting Hill as a silk merchant and the first tea product cossies and pincushion founded. But, it is believed that their bear alpha of 1925 the inspiration was the creation of Winnie the Pooh.
10. In 1909, the first cartoon Teddy "Little Johnny and the Teddy Bears" was published in the United States.
11. In 1912, when the worldthe news of the sinking of the Titanic on its maiden voyage with shocked disbelief, the German soft toy company Steiff made a black bear as mourning gifts for all those who have lost loved ones pass the Titanic.
12. In 1919, lovable teddy bear was the air in their first non-stop transatlantic flight! Aviators Alcock and Brown took Teddy mascot with them on this record breaking flight from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Ireland inLast World War I Vickers Vimy bomber.
13. The teddy bear entered thousands of homes every morning for the British, when the first British comic character, Teddy, Bobby Bear, published in London newspaper, the Daily Herald.
14. The following year, in 1920, the first Rupert Bear picture story, Little Lost Bear, written and illustrated by Mary Tourtel, found their way into the British newspaper The Daily Express.
15. In 1924 Walt Disney animated film giantproduced the first animated film in color with a teddy Alice and the Three Bears.
16. the most famous and popular of all time Bears, Winnie-the-Pooh made his only appearance, when the first edition of Winnie-the-Pooh by AA Milne published in 1926
17. In 1944, as well as forest fires throughout the devastation was caused by the USA Smokey Bear adopted as the mascot of the U.S. campaign to prevent forest fires.
18. Sooty, the teddy bear glovepuppet shows and magicians, debuted on British television in 1952. Sooty was very popular in Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand. So much so that now Sooty children's television show in Britain and the longest was 60 in 2008. Conceived by Harry Corbett, handed the task of the puppeteer father son Matthew in 1976. Matthew dislocation late nineties with the popularity Sooty uninterrupted.
19. In 1953, the Golden Jubilee of Steiff soft toy was first worn. E 'was to wear a new style, "a comical young bear, called Jackie Baby celebrated.
20. A common problem was resolved when Wendy Boston, Welsh toy company, produced the first truly washable teddy bear in 1954.
21. 1958 was another huge and loved to take the popular Paddington Bear appears on the scene for the first time. The first story of Paddington Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond was published this year.
22. In a significant development, has acquired the Walt DisneyThe rights to Winnie-the-Pooh in 1959.
23. Colonel Bob Henderson launches The Teddy Bear Club in 1962.
24. The first animated film of Winnie-the-Pooh by Walt Disney made in 1975. E 'became a classic.
25. In 1979, the Marquis of Bath rally organized by the Great Teddy Bear at Longleat.
26. Departing from its usual terms, the auction house Christie's auction in London was the first Teddy Bear in 1985.
27. In 1988, Gylesand Michele Brandreth set up the Teddy Bear Museum in the hometown of William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon.
28. Next year, 1989, the first British Teddy Bear Festival held in London.
29. In the same year 1989, Happy Anniversary, a mohair Steiff bear, born in 1926, sold at auction in London for a whopping £ 55,000 to American Paul Volpp as the 42nd wedding gift for his wife Rosemary.
30. In 1990, Steiff across the UK The first teddy bears Steiff UK Limited Edition.
31. The teddy bear was crossing continents and made popular at all. In 1994, Teddy Girl, a 1904 cinnamon Steiff bear formerly owned by Sekiguchi was that of Colonel Bob Henderson, Yoshihiro sold at auction in London for a staggering £ 110,000. Sekiguchi went to Japan to create the Teddy Bear Museum in Izu.
32. In 1996, Sekiguchi of the Izu Teddy Bear Museum bought Yoshihiro> Teddy Edward, who has traveled the world, an auction of ... to £ 34,500.
33. He thought it would be only average size teddy bears? Now, (8.5 mm) input by Lynn Lumb of Halifax, England, the sacred portals of the Guinness Book of Records as the smallest teddy bear of the World.
Ever thought that the humble teddy packaged as a long history, is not it?