LEGO Throughout Time

In 1932, a man named Ole Kirk Kristiansen began making wooden toys in his workshop in Billund, Denmark. Two years later, he named his company LEGO, a combination of two Danish words, meaning “play well”. He created the LEGO Building Block, an element three plates or more thick, rectangular in shape, with at least one stud on top. LEGO studs are tiny round dots on a brick that can peg into other bricks to make them stack or connect. The bricks are made from hard plastic that is scratch resistant and designed optimally for achieving the perfect clutch. Popular since the 1950s, LEGO does not seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. The bricks offer limitless building possibilities for the creative soul. The ultimate purpose of LEGO is to inspire and develop children to think creatively, reason systematically, and release their potential to shape their own future.