National Toy Hall Of Fame Inductees
National Toy Hall Of Fame InducteesFrom Dipika Mirpuri,Your Guide to Toys.The most famous toys in history are immortalized in the National Toy Hall Of Fame. Here is a list of all the toys inducted...
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Play-DohPlay-Doh modeling compound started out as wallpaper cleaner. Joe McVicker learned from a teacher that kids usually found modeling clay too hard to manipulate. Discovering that the squishy...
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Rocking HorseFor 4,000 years, the domesticated horse has been a faithful servant to warriors, farmers, travelers, and freighters. Down through the centuries, the horse has inspired likenesses and toys...
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Silly PuttyWhen the Japanese invasion of Asia threatened America's rubber supply during World War II, chemists at General Electric began looking for a synthetic substitute. James Wright stumbled upon...
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Tonka Trucks Just after World War II, six Minnesota teachers who wanted to manufacture garden tools founded Mound Metalcraft in the basement of a local schoolhouse. In 1947, they acquired a competing...
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