I first got concerned in Lego when my son one day put aside his playstation to build a Lego Starwars ship. When he was younger I used to help him build them but now we build them together. It is something that unites us both.
We are not the only ones. Over 200 million sets are sold each year in over 100 countries. But where did it all start?
Lego
In 1932 Ole Kirk Christiansen, a carpenter and joiner, started a firm Stepladder, ironing board and wooden toy firm in a Denmark settlement called Billund. But it was the wooden toys that concerned him most.
Two years later he changed the name to Lego, derived from two danish words "Leg Godt" which means "play well". At this stage there was only a dozen employees. In 1947 the Lego firm was the first in Denmark to buy a plastic injection-moulding motor to yield plastic toys.
In 1950 Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, the son of Ole, is appointed vice president and it within a few years the bricks we know today are on the yield line. A few year later the Lego firm patents the well-known stud and tube coupling and greater collection of bricks are produced.
In 1958 Ole Kirk Christiansen dies and his son becomes head of the firm and Godtfred focuses entirely on the plastic bricks. The years roll on and more developments are added to the bricks. Cellulose acetate is supplanted by acrylonitrile butadiene styrene in 1963. This makes the bricks more colorful and better quality. By now millions of lego pieces are being produced.
Lego - The History of
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