Meccano is a brand of construction set created in 1898 by Frank Hornby in Liverpool, England. The system consists of reusable metal strips, plates, angle...
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The Meccano Set is an overhead gantry located above a busy controlled at-grade road intersection located at the boundary between Lansdowne and Villawood...
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Meccano Ltd was a British toy manufacturing company, established in 1908 by Frank Hornby in Liverpool, England, to manufacture and distribute Meccano...
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legacy of the classic Erector Set; for current developments under the "Erector by Meccano" brand name, see the Meccano article. Basic Erector parts included...
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Bayko (section Meccano era)
Plimpton began advertising Bayko in Meccano Ltd's Meccano Magazine in September 1935, unaware that 25 years later, Meccano itself would own and manufacture...
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Bridge has carried only northbound traffic of the Hume Highway. The Meccano Set is a well-known landmark, consisting of an overhead tubular steel framework...
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panels, which are good for building linkages such as an Erector Set, Mini Unit Beams, Meccano, Merkur, Steel Tec, Lego Technic, Trix, FAC-System, Constructo...
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Differential analyser (section Use of Meccano)
Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1985), pages 90-92. Robinson, Tim (June 2005). "The Meccano Set Computers A history of differential analyzers made from children's toys"...
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is now owned by Hasbro. The construction set was designed in 1914—six years after Frank Hornby's Meccano sets—by Charles H. Pajeau, who formed the Toy...
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Frank Hornby (section Meccano)
principles in the 20th century: Meccano, Hornby Model Railways and Dinky Toys. He also founded the British toy company Meccano Ltd in 1908, and launched a...
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support his family. The parts of the bridge were bolted together like a Meccano set, and it was popular with the British Army away from the battle front...
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Aboriginal Art Site Henry Lawson Drive King Georges Road Lakemba Mosque Meccano Set Old Sugarmill Pressure Tunnel and Shafts Roselands Shopping Centre The...
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Aboriginal Art Site Henry Lawson Drive King Georges Road Lakemba Mosque Meccano Set Old Sugarmill Pressure Tunnel and Shafts Roselands Shopping Centre The...
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also described himself as being "good with his hands" and possessing a Meccano set. His self-descriptions included "girlish", since he had long hair and...
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Aboriginal Art Site Henry Lawson Drive King Georges Road Lakemba Mosque Meccano Set Old Sugarmill Pressure Tunnel and Shafts Roselands Shopping Centre The...
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Aboriginal Art Site Henry Lawson Drive King Georges Road Lakemba Mosque Meccano Set Old Sugarmill Pressure Tunnel and Shafts Roselands Shopping Centre The...
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Aboriginal Art Site Henry Lawson Drive King Georges Road Lakemba Mosque Meccano Set Old Sugarmill Pressure Tunnel and Shafts Roselands Shopping Centre The...
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Aboriginal Art Site Henry Lawson Drive King Georges Road Lakemba Mosque Meccano Set Old Sugarmill Pressure Tunnel and Shafts Roselands Shopping Centre The...
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cars. The K'Nex construction toy has such a motor, as have some later Meccano sets. The very simplest of these motors may use a stretched rubber band as...
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Aboriginal Art Site Henry Lawson Drive King Georges Road Lakemba Mosque Meccano Set Old Sugarmill Pressure Tunnel and Shafts Roselands Shopping Centre The...
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Aboriginal Art Site Henry Lawson Drive King Georges Road Lakemba Mosque Meccano Set Old Sugarmill Pressure Tunnel and Shafts Roselands Shopping Centre The...
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Aboriginal Art Site Henry Lawson Drive King Georges Road Lakemba Mosque Meccano Set Old Sugarmill Pressure Tunnel and Shafts Roselands Shopping Centre The...
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runs through Villawood, was once named Dog Trap Road because many farmers set dog traps for these wild dogs. A train station opened in 1922 to service...
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Aboriginal Art Site Henry Lawson Drive King Georges Road Lakemba Mosque Meccano Set Old Sugarmill Pressure Tunnel and Shafts Roselands Shopping Centre The...
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Aboriginal Art Site Henry Lawson Drive King Georges Road Lakemba Mosque Meccano Set Old Sugarmill Pressure Tunnel and Shafts Roselands Shopping Centre The...
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Aboriginal Art Site Henry Lawson Drive King Georges Road Lakemba Mosque Meccano Set Old Sugarmill Pressure Tunnel and Shafts Roselands Shopping Centre The...
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Aboriginal Art Site Henry Lawson Drive King Georges Road Lakemba Mosque Meccano Set Old Sugarmill Pressure Tunnel and Shafts Roselands Shopping Centre The...
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the Erector Set, a construction toy, in 1913 (preceded by the similar Meccano set conceived by Frank Hornby in 1898 which he developed and patented as...
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back to India. He initially got the idea for the system from seeing a Meccano set in a toy store in London. Ranganathan returned with interest in librarianship...
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government's proposals for what became known as the Bogor Declaration, which set targets for a significant increase in free trade and investment between industrialised...
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