| For sure you have heard or play with LEGO, one of | | | | Depression, one of the most popular toys in the world |
| the most famous toys in the word. I want today to tell | | | | would be created. |
| you a bit more about the history of such a great | | | | For over 30 years, the LEGO Company made only |
| company. | | | | toys and related goods. Then in 1968, the company |
| Ole Kirk Christiansen was a carpenter in Billund, | | | | opened its first LEGOLAND - in its home city of Billund, |
| Denmark who opened a woodworking shop in 1916. | | | | Denmark. Combining the LEGO building bricks with a |
| He and his team of apprentices built furniture for | | | | computer, the Robotics Invention System 1.5 is |
| people in the area. The company's name was coined | | | | currently the most advanced set in the LEGO |
| by christiansen in and from the danish phrase. Ole kirk | | | | Company's line of technology-based products. This toy |
| christiansen also his son godtfred kirk invented lego, of | | | | is targeted at users ages twelve and above, and that |
| the years of the lego brick here are the best sets in | | | | includes any moms, dads, and grandparents that want |
| history handpicked from. | | | | to join in. Lego Company still can harvest the profits |
| By 1954 , Christiansen's son, Godtfred, had become | | | | from its bricks sales as this software will be highle |
| the junior managing director of the LEGO Group. It | | | | dependable to Lego Mindstorm brick. |
| was his conversation with an overseas buyer that | | | | Even Lego Company will probably never know where |
| struck the idea of a toy system . Lego was born from | | | | will this partnership goes. |
| the creative mind of Danish carpenter Ole Kirk | | | | Unfortunately, the Lego company sometimes behaves |
| Christiansen back in the early 1930's. The Lego name | | | | monopalistically and often overprices its products, |
| was coined in 1934, meaning "play well" and it certainly | | | | counting on branch loyalty to pull them through. Lego |
| has lived up to it's name. The history begins in 1932, | | | | has been losing money in recent years but still controls |
| when master carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen sets up | | | | a large market. The LEGO company patents the |
| a company in Denmark to manufacture a variety of | | | | stud-and-tube coupling system. This new system |
| household goods like ironing boards and stepladders | | | | makes models much more stable. |
| along with wooden toys. | | | | The Lego company expanded their production lines to |
| Christiansen's company continued to make wooden | | | | include lights, cameras, sensors, gears and accessory |
| toys until 1960, when its wooden toy warehouse was | | | | motors that compliment the Lego RCX. The RCX |
| destroyed in a fire. In 1934, he named the company | | | | was a programmable brick that could be connected to |
| "LEGO," an abbreviation of the Danish words "leg | | | | a PC and given instructions to carry out very |
| godt," or "play well.". Godfred Kirk Christiansen travels | | | | complicated tasks. |
| to England and meets a purchasing agent on the ferry. | | | | Regardless LEGO new policies, LEGO is a great toy, |
| They talk about toys. Ole Kirk Christiansen was a | | | | and it's company has done a lot to entertain many kids |
| carpenter who lived in Bilund, Denmark, and that is also | | | | around the world. Including me. |
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