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Miracle Recreation is a playground manufacturer in the USA, providing children's playground equipment and amenities for parks and schools, throughout the world. ==The beginning of Miracle== John Ahrens founded Miracle Recreation in Grinnell, Iowa in 1927. He redesigned the merry-go-round after seeing an exhibit for a “Perpetual Motion Machine. He called his product the “Miracle Whirl”. He was awarded a patent and created the company known as Ahrens Manufacturing Company. John passed his company to his son Claude in 1940. Claude already owned a hybrid seed corn company but in 1946 he focussed his attention on manufacturing and selling the Miracle Whirl. Claude sold his seed corn business, and started the Miracle Recreation Equipment Company, formerly known as Ahrens Manufacturing Company. Claude set up the production for the Miracle Whirl merry-go-round in the Grinnell Glove Factory. Claude redesigning it to replace the wooden platform with a more durable metal one, eliminating the center post and adding tubing handrails for the children to hold onto. Claude painted the product with a candy stripe so the product was clearly identifiable, an idea he carried through to other products as well. Almost all of Miracle’s first customers were country schools. The schools bought the Miracle Whirl to entertain their students during recess. During 1947, Miracle’s first year of operation, 900 whirls were sold to schools throughout Iowa. Soon after, Miracle expanded their product offering to include playground equipment such as swings, teeter-totters, and jungle gyms. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Miracle Recreation Equipment Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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