Hilary Fisher Page's Interlocking Building Cubes of 1939
Lego bricks
Two Lego Duplo bricks with a standard brick for comparison
The Lego Group began in the workshop of
Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891–1958), a carpenter from
Billund, Denmark, who began making wooden toys in 1932.
[6][7] In 1934, his company came to be called "Lego", derived from the
Danish phrase leg godt
[lɑjˀ ˈkʌt],
[8][9] which means "play well".
[10] In 1947, Lego expanded to begin producing plastic toys.
[11] In 1949 Lego began producing, among other new products, an early version of the now familiar interlocking bricks, calling them "Automatic Binding Bricks". These bricks were based on the
Kiddicraft Self-Locking Bricks, which had been
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