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American Bricks were invented by a Swedish engineer, Nils I. Paulson, who filed for patent June 1939, granted Nov 1941 (Patent number 2262199). The bricks were originally made of pressed wood, and manufactured by the Halsam Products Company of Chicago. (Thanks to my friend David for extracting this patent diagram.)
Here is the technical description of the full brick from the patent application:
"The full size member is provided on one face with a plurality of dowels, there being two parallel rows of such dowels with four dowels in each row. ... In its opposite face the full size member is provided with the same number of sockets as dowels, the respective sockets being in register with the dowels."
Our now annual show in White City with more displays and builders!
Our first Brick Stories Challenge: White City Modular Buildings!
I love all types of art and admire creative people since I have no creativity at all. We flew into London a few hours earlier and I was trying to stay awake so I decided to check out the murals of Brick Lane in East London. I exited from the Tube station, took a wrong turn, and ended up near the East London Mosque. Interesting area. I got my bearings and found an amazing number of murals and paintings, not just on Brick Lane but in surrounding parks. Absolutely amazing and a great place to check out - and then have a curry afterwards!
I took these photos in East London in October 2016.
SeniorsBrick held a LEGO exhibition event in Yuseong Cultural Center. July 18th to 31th, 2022.
This event with DLC(Deajeon LEGO Club).
This poor leaf is a little beat up. Believe it or not, this is the first ginkgo leaf I've seen in real life! I got a little excited, so I took a picture.
Brick Fair traveled to Birmingham, AL to show of all their blocky goodness. The dealer's section was not huge but slam pack full of goodies, both stock and custom.
Then we checked out the exhibits, which I took pictures of. SO MUCH to see.
A cathedral, still being built by its lego men. I love the monks skulking around in the catacombs.
An old brick factory along the Humber Estuary in Barton, Lincolnshire.
I wanted to get that special look that some photographers/artists on Flickr are so flippin' good at! Still not there, but I'll keep working on it. Any tips & tricks are very welcome ;-)
Between the years of 1967 and 1976, American Plastic Bricks contained clear bricks. The material they were made of changed a few times in the ten years. I have more than two 725 cansiters full of these, so even though I have ways to use them, I can easily say there were too many included with each set. I know the clearest ones are from 1967 and I think the foggiest ones are from 1974 or 1976, but I have to check some of my sets which are not separated out to be sure. The ones with the purple tint are probably from 1970.