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During the Second World War, some new types of toys were created through accidental innovation. After trying to create a replacement for synthetic rubber, the American Earl L. Warrick inadvertently invented "nutty putty" during World War II. Later, Peter Hodgson recognized the potential as a childhood plaything and packaged it as Silly Putty.
The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly significant technological inventions and their inventors, where known. [ a ] The dates in this article make frequent use of the units mya and kya , which refer to millions and thousands of years ago, respectively.
Nylon is invented and patented by DuPont. [6] 1938: Nylon is first used for bristles in toothbrushes. It features at the 1939 World's Fair and is famously used in stockings in 1940. 1938: Polytetrafluoroethylene (commonly known as teflon), discovered by Roy Plunkett at DuPont. 1941
In 1947, after World War II, when injection molding was introduced to Denmark, Christiansen bought an injection molding machine for the company to make toys. That same year, he and his son obtained samples of plastic, interlocking Kiddicraft bricks, which inspired the first Lego brick created in 1936.
Lego first sells toys to Hungary. Lego Portugal is established. The first known stop motion brickfilm is made. 1974: Lego figures are launched, starting with the Lego family. Bricks and Pieces, the first official Lego newsletter, is introduced in the United Kingdom. Lego Spain is established. 1975: The company grows to 2,500 employees.
For Dave Gianoni, the best-ever Marx toy was a cabled, two-foot tall robot made by the company in the 1960s. Gianoni's grandmother, Ligia Yacobozzi, worked at Marx Toys and often gave toys to her ...
The toys made a revival in 2010 after a new line of larger Weebles were released. ... These colorful little marsupials rolled up into furry pom-poms and made a hubbub both in the toy world and on ...
Stuffed toys are made from a range of materials. The earliest were created from felt, velvet, or mohair and stuffed with straw, horsehair, or sawdust. [5] [20] Following World War II, manufacturers began to adopt more synthetic materials into production, [5] and in 1954, the first teddy bear made from easily washable materials was produced. [2]