Hilary Page
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Hilary "Harry" Fisher Page was an English toy maker and inventor of Self-Locking Building Bricks, the predecessor of Lego bricks. He founded the Kiddicraft toy company.
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Bri-Plax Interlocking Building Cubes
Kiddicraft plastic toys
Ole Kirk Christiansen
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Ole Kirk Christiansen was a Danish carpenter. In 1932, he founded the construction toy company Lego, later known as the Lego Group. Christiansen transformed his small woodworking shop, which initially
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…has been described as anticipating the stacking-ring toys later popularised by Fisher-Price. These bricks have been described as the "original Lego": Ole Kirk Christiansen and his son Godtfred became aware of the Kiddicraft brick and in 1949 marketed their own version, the Automatic Binding Brick, which became the Lego…
Christiansen in 1957