With probably
the best range of toys ever made, LEGO is one of the amazing institutions of
our time. When in 1932 a Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen's carpentry
business was embroiled in a recession and pretty much went bankrupt, LEGO began
like most amazing companies from very humble beginnings. Ole started to produce
little wooden toys in his work shop, to pay the bills, and marketed them
locally. The name of which is based on 2 Danish words "Leg" and
"Godt" which implies to "play well,"two years later he
titled his company LEGO and thus LEGO was launched. A wooden toy duck was his
first toy. lego create a wide array
of toys that take people’s imagination to new heights.
Toy building
bricks were not actually invented by Ole Kirk Christiansen. Patented in Britain
years earlier, he was inspired by a type of self locking building brick. When
the inventor died and the earliest LEGO bricks were more or less an exact copy
of this system, LEGO acquired all the rights to this brick system.
LEGO bricks were
first created in 1958, as we know them at present. With the ones built today, the
bricks constructed then still interlock. Making LEGO the terrific company that
it is now, this kind of consistency is among the factors.
There is a
product for everyone as LEGO pieces are engineered in such a way. From standard
brick sets to the large inspired sets that include the LEGO Airport, the LEGO
Taj Mahal and LEGO Tower bridge, from infants to schoolchildren, youths to
adults. As you go or building one of the various predesigned model sets, LEGO
will at all times deliver, whether you want to start out from scratch making
things up.
Facts about
LEGO:
About 19
billion LEGO bricks every single year, are manufactured. Every hour, or 36,000
per minute, that is 2.16 million LEGO bricks.
Only 18 out
of every 1 million LEGO bricks manufactured are thought to be flawed, the LEGO
construction process is so accurate.
Meaning they
make more tyres than any tyre manufacturer in the world, LEGO fabricates about
306 million tiny rubber tyres every single year.
For each
individual one of the world's 6 billion inhabitants, there are approximately 62
LEGO bricks.
Having fun
with with LEGO sets, youngsters around the world spend around 5 billion hours a
year.
With lego build bricks, around 400 million
people all over the world have played.
Since 1949,
well over 400 billion LEGO bricks have been made. This is enough to join the
Earth and the Moon ten times over, piled on top of each other.
All over the
world, 7 LEGO sets are sold by outlets every second.
