enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Roominate - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roominate

   Roominate is a construction set introduced by Maykah Inc., a company founded by Alice Brooks and Bettina Chen, in 2012. The product, marketed at girls aged 6–10, consists of modular plastic building pieces that can interlock to create models and includes circuits that can be wired.

3. K'Nex - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K'Nex

   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. A. C. Gilbert Company - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._C._Gilbert_Company

   "The 8 Most Wildly Irresponsible Vintage Toys" -- page 1 and page 2 at Cracked.com: Includes humorous discussions of some of A.C. Gilbert's more ill-advised products for pre-teens: A glass blowing kit (#8); a molten lead casting kit (#7); a chemistry set (#3) which included potassium permanganate, ammonium nitrate and instructions on how to ...

5. Meccano - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meccano

   In 1901 Frank Hornby, a clerk from Liverpool, England, invented and patented a new toy called "Mechanics Made Easy" that was based on the principles of mechanical engineering. [2] It was a model construction kit consisting of perforated metal strips, plates and girders, with wheels, pulleys, gears, shaft collars and axles for mechanisms and ...

6. Erector Set - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erector_Set

   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.

7. 1970s Lego note tells parents to let girls build spaceships

   www.aol.com/news/2014-11-25-1970s-lego-note...

   Lego fans call the toy timeless -- but words on a pamphlet in a Lego set from the 1970s are decidedly modern. The note reads: "The urge to create is equally strong in all children. Boys and girls ...