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stone building blocks - drawings for a construction toy
Lilienthal, Gustav and Lilienthal, Gustav1879
Otto-Lilienthal-Museum
Anklam, Germany
Gustav Lilienthal published the idea of .artificial miniature blocks of stone in a magazine called "The new kindergarden". These blocks made of a mixture of quartz sand, chalk, and linseed oil have been the ancestors of the famous "Anchor stone building blocks", LEGO and almost all construction toy systems of today.
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- Title: stone building blocks - drawings for a construction toy
- Creator: Lilienthal, Gustav, Lilienthal, Gustav
- Date created: 1879
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- External Link: Audioguide, audio guide
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