Toys History Of Lego
History of lego toys.
Toys history of lego. Stylised as lego is a line of plastic construction toys that are manufactured by the lego group a privately held company based in billund. Simple block shaped toys have been around for hundreds of years but it took a 20th century danish genius named ole kirk christiansen to invent the interlocking pieces we know today as lego bricks. The company name lego was coined by christiansen from the danish phrase leg godt meaning play well the lego group claims that lego means i put together or i assemble in latin though this is a rather liberal translation.
Since the middle of the 20th century these small plastic bricks have sparked the imagination of children around the world and lego sets have a strong hold on their place at the top of the list of the world s most popular toys. In 1949 lego produced its first plastic brick a precursor to its signature brick with interlocking studs on the top and tubes on the bottom. Two years later he named his company lego after the danish phrase leg godt play well.
In 1947 ole kirk and godtfred obtained samples of interlocking plastic bricks produced by the company kiddicraft. Lego ˈ l ɛ ɡ oʊ leg oh danish. Lego blocks originated in the billund denmark workshop of ole kirk christiansen who began making wooden toys in 1932.
