This past Friday evening I spoke to about 800 highschool science students and parents at the Illinois Junior Academy of Science Banquet on the science of toys. I enjoyed sharing on that topic because while what we do and the products we create may be easily dismissed as ‘just toys,’ they are in fact often the result of scientific discovery and experimentation. 

 

 

            

Many of our products embody fairly sophisticated mechanical and electronic technologies, not to mention magnetics, hydraulics, pneumatics, and vacuumatics. We discover. We invent, and the end result is a product that delights, entertains, perhaps even mystifies, and, we hope, inspires others to do the same. 

            

  

 

As I have related many times, the Wright Brothers were inspired to pioneer powered flight by the toy airplane their father gave them as children. The great architect Frank Lloyd Wright credits his toy blocks as the inspiration for becoming an architect as well as his design aesthetic. 

            

Toys inspire. Toys change our world.

 

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