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My grandfather made some coloured injection-moulded bricks for his children before Lego but didn't bother to patent the design. We still have some of them in t
by rjsw 8y ago
My grandfather made some coloured injection-moulded bricks for his children before Lego but didn't bother to patent the design.
We still have some of them in the family.
- jacquesm 8y agoThat is extremely interesting. Do you have any pictures and do you know exactly when this all happened?
- rjsw 8y agoThe blocks were made from polyethylene [1], the history section of the wiki page states that it was reserved for use in RADAR sets during WWII, this would have been how he got access to it as he was responsible for the design and manufacture of the British RADAR transmitters. I have been told that he was the first person to try putting colouring into LDPE. This may have been after the Page design though, my mother was the eldest child but wasn't born until 1941. I think we contributed some pictures to the UK Materials engineering society, will ask. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene
- jacquesm 8y agoThank you. The early history of the brick is a favorite subject of mine and there are a lot of details that are lost or about to be lost and to recover some of it is very special.