Pedro Edralin Flores (26 April 1896 – 3 January 1964) [1] was a Filipino businessman and yo-yo maker who has been credited with popularizing yo-yos in the United States. He patented an innovation to yo-yos that used a loop instead of a knot around the axle, allowing for new tricks such as the ability to "sleep".

2021年4月27日 · The man was Pedro Edralin Flores from the Ilocos region of the Philippine Commonwealth. Flores was born in 1896, the year the national hero, Jose Rizal, was executed by the soon-to-depart Spaniards.

2019年7月1日 · Pedro Flores, a Philippine immigrant, began manufacturing a toy labeled with that name. Flores became the first person to mass-produce toy yo-yos, at his small toy factory located in California. Duncan saw the Flores toy, liked it, bought the rights from Flores in 1929, and then trademarked the name "Yo-Yo."

2011年6月11日 · Pedro Flores never claimed he invented the yo-yo, but he was certainly the one who began making the toy popular in America. Your grandparents played with yo-yos and so will your grandchildren, thanks to a little boy named Pedro who grew up to make a fun toy for children all across America!

Pedro Flores is the “Father of the Yo-Yo” in the United States. Pedro Flores, a Filipino immigrant, introduced the word “yo-yo” to the United States and began producing yo-yos trademarked by that name in 1928.

2018年5月10日 · The contests, the name, and the modern design were all brought together for the first time in 1928 by another man, the Filipino entrepreneur Pedro Flores. An immigrant who moved to the United States as a young man in 1915, Flores had grown up with yo-yos.

2025年3月15日 · Learn Pedro Flores (inventor) facts for kids. Pedro Edralin Flores (26 April 1896 – 3 January 1964) was a Filipino businessman and yo-yo maker who has been credited with popularizing yo-yos in the United States.