History Ch. - The Toys that Built America Series 1 (2021) Part 1 Masters of Invention

The Toys That Built America Series 1

The Toys That Built America chronicles the stories & rivalries that gave rise to the modern toy industry. Against the backdrop of events like the Civil War, the Great Depression, and the Vietnam War, visionaries like Milton Bradley, the Parker Brothers, Ruth and Elliott Handler, and Merrill Hassenfeld all courted failure and ruin at every turn on their way to building billion-dollar empires.

Part 1 Masters of Invention

The incredible creations of some of the most iconic toys in history happened by chance. During World War II, a naval engineer accidentally creates an iconic spiral toy that walks down stairs, when he's trying to come up with a way to protect ship equipment from damage. At the same time, an engineer is trying to invent a synthetic rubber for the war effort and instead creates a strange putty that becomes another world-famous toy. It's the origin stories of these toys and more, and the genius entrepreneurs who brought them to the world

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