The figure of 26th U.S. president is holding a red counterbalance vane that turns the bike with the wind. Whirligigs were invented centuries ago. They are both toys and tools, indicators of wind ...

A political whirligig was sold by Garth's Auctions in Ohio a few years ago. It is a figure of President Theodore Roosevelt with a top hat and monocle riding on a penny farthing cycle. Roosevelt served ...

When Vollis Simpson began constructing his mammoth whirligigs out of spare machine parts, old paint and highway signs, he did not set out to create an artistic legacy. But the 30 giant kinetic ...

Whirligigs were invented centuries ago. They are both toys and tools, indicators of wind direction and the weather. Sources disagree on where the first were made; it was probably in China about 400 ...