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Some of the toy tech that has shown up at CES this week just makes me wish I was a kid again so that I had an excuse to play with it all day. Leading the pack was definitely the chirruping and highly ...

Meccano is one of those toys with a very strong nostalgia element, involving memories of hours spent bolting together a toy wheelbarrow or a coffee table-size Forth Bridge. But 21st century kids ...

In this video, I restore an upcycled toy car made from an old wooden coffin plane and vintage Meccano parts. The project took ...

If we were to talk to engineers about the childhood toys which most inspired them, it’s likely that the older among them would mention either Meccano or Erector Set. These similar construction toys ...

Once-popular engineering toy, in decline since the 1950s, will still be manufactured by partner companies It is the children’s toy, invented in Britain, that inspired a passion for engineering, ...

Meccano's Mattei Theodore gives a tour of the company's ideas factory An anonymous industrial zone on the outskirts of the French port of Calais is home to one of the great historic names in the toy ...

FOR MILLIONS of mechanically inclined young tinkerers, the Erector set (known in Europe as Meccano) has been the ultimate kit. This collection of perforated metal beams and panels, held together with ...

If William Gibson and Bruce Sterling had written an arcade scene into “The Difference Engine”, it probably would have looked a lot like [Pete Wood]’s Meccano Martian Mission, as illustrated in the ...

An anonymous industrial zone on the outskirts of the French port of Calais is home to one of the great historic names in the toy business. Meccano may have been started in the UK more than a century ...