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2. Girder and Panel building sets - Wikipedia

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   The Skyrail sets introduced yellow girders and beams, different colored window and door panels and battery powered red or blue "Sky Cars" that ran on monorail steel rails from building to building. The sets came in two sizes: a single red car set (17), and the bigger two-car set that contained the blue car (18).

3. K'Nex - Wikipedia

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   The toy's building system consists of interlocking plastic rods, connectors, blocks, gears, wheels, and other components, which can be assembled to form a wide variety of models, machines, and architectural structures. While K'Nex is designed for children ages 5–12, a bigger version, Kid K'Nex, is aimed towards children 5 and younger.

4. Erector Set - Wikipedia

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   Erector quickly became the most popular construction toy in the United States, most likely because it was the only construction set at the time to contain a motor. [citation needed] In 1914, the name was changed to "The Mysto Erector, The Toy That Resembles Structural Steel". In 1916, the company was reorganized and became the A.C. Gilbert Company.

5. Meccano - Wikipedia

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   Meccano is a brand of model construction system created in 1898 by Frank Hornby in Liverpool, England.The system consists of reusable metal strips, plates, angle girders, wheels, axles and gears, and plastic parts that are connected using nuts and bolts.

6. A. C. Gilbert Company - Wikipedia

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   The sets contained a variety of objects including interlocking rings, playing cards, and a magic wand. [4] In 1911, Gilbert invented the Erector construction toy concept, inspired by railroad girders used by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in its mainline electrification project. Gilbert and his wife Mary developed cardboard ...

7. Tinkertoy - Wikipedia

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   Children in Laos playing with Tinkertoy sets. The construction set was designed in 1914—six years after the Frank Hornby's Meccano sets—by Charles H. Pajeau, who formed the Toy Tinker Company in Evanston, Illinois, to manufacture them. Pajeau, a stonemason, designed the set after seeing children play with sticks and empty spools of thread ...