Legos: A Marvelous Invention

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-Ammara H. and Malori B.

        Most kids big and small have played with legos at least once in their life, yet never knew the amazing story of the lego.  Its story started in 1932,  with Ole Kirk Christiansen who was just a simple carpenter with a large ambition.  As a young man he turned his love for carving and playing with wood into a business, and in 1916 he opened his own shop. In the beginning     he produced furniture like ladders, stools, and ironing boards. In 1924 he was looking to expand his business, but his son accidentally set a pile of wood on fire and put their shop and home in flames. Most people would think of that as a great loss, but Christiansen saw the fire as an opportunity to expand the shop. 

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   TOUGH TIMES                      


Even with all that happened, tragedy continued to fall onto Christianen. In 1929 the american stock market  crashed and plunged the world into a depression, then in 1932 his wife passed away. With everything going on Christiansen laid off much of his  staff and struggled to make ends meet, but little did he know all these struggles were helping him make the foundation for one of the greatest  business  comeback stories in the world. Since times were extremely hard, he had to make a difficult decision to use his wood to make expensive goods that might sell. Among the goods were wooden toys. However the decision of using his woods for non expensive goods did not pay off, he slid to bankruptcy. He refused to stop making toys for he found himself a new passion. His new love for toys pushed the company ahead. He renamed the company to reflect his new direction: leg godt or “play well” in Danish, which became known as the lego. Over the next several years, the company grew rapidly. In 1948 lego had 50 employees. The product line also grew, now in addition to the lego they make lego ducks, clothes hangers, plastic balls for babies, and some wooden blocks. In 1947 the company made a large purchase that transformed the company and made it world famous and a household name. In that same year bought a plastic injection molding machine that could mass produce plastic toys. By 1949 Lego used this new machine to make about 200 more different types of toys such as the atomic binding bricks, a plastic fish, and a plastic sailor. The atomic binding bricks were now one of Lego's most famous toys today. Then in 1953 the atomic binding bricks were renamed to the lego bricks.  Sadly in 1958 ole kirk christiansen passed away and his son gotfred became the head of the company. By the early 1960 Lego was known world wide. Then in 1964 the famous lego sets were made. By 2015 lego toys were sold in more than 140 countries. Today, Lego sets have a strong hold in their place at the top of the list of the world's most popular toys. 



     From being a simple carpenter with a large ambition to becoming the founder of the 3rd largest toy company in the world. Legos have become the toy that sparks the creative mind of all people no matter how young or old.





Edits were done by Monica B.

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