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- "Hop Rod" Pogo Stick, 1971-1975 - Gordon Spitzmesser of Elwood, Indiana, received a U.S. patent for a "combustible gas-powered pogo stick" on March 22, 1960. His son Edwin demonstrated it on national television in 1961. Spitzmesser never produced his invention but sold the patent to Chance Mfg. Co. of Wichita, Kansas, which manufactured the one-cylinder, two-cycle "Hop Rod" in the early 1970s.
- 1971-1975
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"Hop Rod" Pogo Stick, 1971-1975
Gordon Spitzmesser of Elwood, Indiana, received a U.S. patent for a "combustible gas-powered pogo stick" on March 22, 1960. His son Edwin demonstrated it on national television in 1961. Spitzmesser never produced his invention but sold the patent to Chance Mfg. Co. of Wichita, Kansas, which manufactured the one-cylinder, two-cycle "Hop Rod" in the early 1970s.