As the $8 toy crawls on a piece of paper, the marks drawn beneath slowly form a strange, coiling pattern. I have the urge to go find a bunch of old mechanical toys and attach pens to them to see ...

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When curators at the National Toy Hall of Fame learned the Fisher-Price Corn Popper had been voted in, they knew they had ...

Gifts purchased by the fund that year included 500 dolls, 60 sleds, 100 footballs, 1,500 books and 2,500 mechanical toys. Toys were distributed to 1,500 children. “Those facing what otherwise ...

“We’re trained to use toys as tools—that’s what separates us from a typical playgroup,” she explained. “We break child development down into many steps, small pieces of big milestones.

It isn’t as simple as going to Walmart and pulling one off the shelves: The hall, part of the The Strong National Museum of ...

Marquette University's Opus College of Engineering and Penfield Children's Center partnered up with more than 50 student ...

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What Drives Us in Mechanical Engineering? Mechanical engineers use the principles of energy, materials, and mechanics to design and manufacture machines and devices of all types. At Drexel, our ...

Glocusent’s Bookmark Style Reading Light is the perfect gift for those who burn the midnight oil reading. The clip-on USB ...

You probably already have car insurance for accidents and liability, but typical auto insurance policies don’t cover the expense to fix breakdowns caused by mechanical failures — for that ...

With new toys on the market all the time, curators can only guess what might be the next Etch A Sketch, a mechanical drawing toy that's still popular and virtually unchanged after 100 years ...