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Fisher-Price, Inc. is an American company that produces educational toys for infants, toddlers and preschoolers, headquartered in East Aurora, New York. It was founded in 1930 during the Great Depression by Herman Fisher, Irving Price, Helen Schelle and Margaret Evans Price. Fisher-Price has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Mattel since 1993.
Ronald Fisher. Statistical Methods for Research Workers is a classic book on statistics, written by the statistician R. A. Fisher. It is considered by some [who?] to be one of the 20th century's most influential books on statistical methods, together with his The Design of Experiments (1935). It was originally published in 1925, by Oliver ...
Go Fish. Four cards of the same face value are known as a "book", and the aim of the game is to collect these. Go Fish or Fish is a card game usually played by two to five players, [2] although it can be played with up to 10 players. It can be played in about 5 to 15 minutes.
Construx. Construx is a brand of plastic building toys introduced by Fisher-Price in 1983. Unlike other building toys such as Lego, Construx feature beam-like pieces of varying lengths that snapped on to cubical connector knots in order to build large shapes. These are relatively secure even though no nuts or bolts were used.
Little People is a toy brand for children ages 6–36 months and to ages 3 and up, originally produced by Fisher-Price, Inc. in the 1960s as the Play Family People. The current product line consists of playsets, mini-sets and accessories, books, CDs, and DVDs focusing on various configurations of 5 characters named Eddie, Tessa, Mia, Koby, and ...
Carrie Gertrude Stevens (1882–1970) was an American fly fisher and fly lure tier from Madison and Upper Dam, Maine, and the creator of Rangeley Favorite trout and salmon flies. Self-taught in the art of fly tying, Stevens invented the Grey Ghost Streamer, an imitation of the Smelt, Osmerus mordax. Stevens' flies received national and ...
Herman Guy Fisher (November 2, 1898 – September 26, 1975), [1] was born in Unionville Pennsylvania. He is best known as a co-founder of the toy brand Fisher-Price . Fisher graduated from the Pennsylvania State University where he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity in 1921 with a BA in Commerce and Finance.
Planet Heroes was a line of toys from Fisher-Price depicting various heroic characters each identified with a specific planet. These characters represented their planets in design and features, such as Mercury and Pluto are very small, while Jupiter is a larger toy. The toys representing the planets have numbers on them corresponding with the ...