Lego - The History of

I first got interested in Lego when my son everyone day put aside his playstation to build a Lego Starwars . When he was younger I in use accustomed to to help him build them but now we found them together. It is something that unites us both.

We are not the not ones. Over 200 million sets are sold each year in over 100 countries. But where did it all start?

In 1932 Ole Kirk Christiansen, a carpenter and joiner, started a area Stepladder, ironing board and wooden charge in a Denmark village called Billund. But it was the wooden toys that interested him most.

Two years later he changed the name to LEGO, derived from two danish words "Leg Godt" which means "play adeptly". At this stage there was only a dozen employees. In 1947 the LEGO company was the first in Denmark to buy a open injection-moulding machine to put out receptive toys.

In 1950 Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, the son of OLE, is appointed evil-doing president and it within a hardly years the bricks we conscious today are on the work line. A occasional year later the LEGO new zealand patents the about stud and tube coupling and greater mark of bricks are produced.

In 1958 Ole Kirk Christiansen dies and his son becomes head of the company and Godtfred focuses entirely on the plastic bricks. The years spin on and more developments are added to the bricks. Cellulose acetate is replaced close to acrylonitrile butadiene styrene in 1963. This makes the bricks more colorful and better quality. By contemporary millions of lego pieces are being produced.