Buy this book on-line McREAVY, ANTHONY: : THE TOY STORY - The Life and Times of Inventor FRANK HORNBYLONDON.EBURY PRESS/RANDOM HOUSE,2005. ISBN 009188117X.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Head of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing,no bumped corners.Top+ fore-edges very,very,lightly aged but clean,contents bright,tight and pristine.
Clean,black paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine /backstrip and clean plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vi-xvipp +1-288pp includes half-title+title pages, contents list,an introduction,10 chapters, b/w photograph vignette chapter head- pieces and contemporary b/w photographic toys/models and advertising illustrations throughout the text.
His invention was not a scientific instrument,or even an equation,but a toy: Meccano.And yet he was one of the greatest inventors of the modern world.This is the story of one of the most unlikely inventors of the last two centuries - one whose creations inspired generations of young engineers,scientists and inventors. Frank Hornby was a clerk,businessman, politician and inventor but it is as toymaker that he is best known.Yet his contribution to the development of engineering,science and invention has for a long time been ignored.This serious looking gentleman with the thin moustache and the piercing stare was an uncle to generations of little boys.He was also one of the shrewdest operators in the business.The playthings that he originally created for his children made his fortune as well as his name.When he died in 1936 he left a legacy which even the economic catastrophes and industrial blunders of the postwar period could not erode.Long after his death Frank Hornby is still remembered as an inventor,educator, businessman,entrepreneur and above all,as the toymaker.
A beautifully written biography, capturing the spirit of a modest genius, turn of the century England and the magical delights of childhood.
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