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A construction set is a standardized piece assortment allowing for the construction of various different models. Construction sets are most often marketed as toys. Popular construction toy brands incl
Kiddicraft and Lego building blocks in different colors.
Lego bricks are a construction set example.
Interlocking disks enable the construction of high-symmetry models such as that of C 60 fullerene.
1970s No. 2 Meccano set
Meccano
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Meccano is a British brand of construction set created in 1901 by Frank Hornby in Liverpool, England. The system consists of reusable metal strips, plates, angle girders, wheels, axles and gears, and
Construction set
…and shapes are connected by pins or screws perpendicular to the panels, which are good for building linkages such as an Erector Set, Mini Unit Beams, Meccano, Merkur, Steel Tec, Lego Technic, Trix, FAC-System, Constructo Straws, and Überstix Panels of varying sizes and shapes with flexible panels or hinges…
Meccano tractor
An early Meccano set on display in the Edinburgh Museum of Childhood
Advertisement in Pears' Annual Christmas, 1920
Instruction book for the 1956 Meccano No. 7 and 8 Outfits, showing a model of a walking drag line excavator built with the red and green Meccano pieces of the time