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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 ...
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Set #11 had a tray with one pump, and set #12 had a tray with two pumps. Each pump required the use of 2 D-cell batteries that loaded underneath the tray, out of sight. The sets contained many new clear plastic polystyrene parts consisting of spray heads, dippers, turbines, funnels, small and large liquid chambers, and storage tanks.
The word barn comes from the Old English bere, for barley (or grain in general), and aern, for a storage place—thus, a storehouse for barley. [4] The word bere-ern, also spelled bern and bearn, is attested to at least sixty times in homilies and other Old English prose. [5]
Bigjigs Rail is the wooden railway system from Bigjigs Toys Ltd. [43] There are over 130 different items in the Bigjigs Rail Range, compatible with all other wooden railway systems. Sio is a Dutch toy factory which produced wooden toys and trains. [44] [45] [circular reference] Kids-Wood, had a wooden toy train line including a road system. It ...
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