Tinkertoy
Sign in to saveThe Tinkertoy Construction Set (commonly known as Tinkertoy, Tinker Toy, or plural forms thereof) is a construction set for children. It was designed in 1914 and was originally manufactured in Evanston, Illinois, U.S. The Tinkertoy brand is currently owned by BasicFun! Inc., which acquired it in 2018.
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The Tinkertoy Construction Set (commonly known as Tinkertoy, Tinker Toy, or plural forms thereof) is a construction set for children. It was designed in 1914 and was originally manufactured in Evanston, Illinois, U.S. The Tinkertoy brand is currently owned by BasicFun! Inc., which acquired it in 2018.
==History== The construction set was designed in 1914 –six years after 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. Pajeau partnered with Robert Pettit and Gordon Tinker to market a toy that would allow and inspire children to use their imaginations. After an initially slow start, over a million were sold.
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