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Hilary Page (Hilary Fisher Page) was born on 20 August, 1904 in Sanderstead, England, is an English toy maker. Discover Hilary Page's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 52 years old?

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Occupation Toy maker
Age 52 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 20 August, 1904
Birthday 20 August
Birthplace Sanderstead, England
Date of death 24 June, 1957
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1904

Hilary "Harry" Fisher Page (20 August 1904 – 24 June 1957) was an English toy maker and inventor of Self-Locking Building Bricks, the predecessor of Lego bricks.

He founded the Kiddicraft toy company.

Hilary "Harry" Fisher Page was born on 20 August 1904 in Sanderstead, England.

He was the first child of Samuel Fisher and Lillian Maude Page.

As a child he made his own wooden toys and invented games supported by his father who worked in the lumber trade.

1918

Page was educated at Shrewsbury School from 1918 to 1923, where he began to display his entrepreneurial skills.

Interested in photography, he set up a business developing photos for the other students.

1929

After his formal education he worked in the timber trade, like his father, for several years and in 1929 married Norah Harris, a long-time friend of the family.

1932

The couple's only daughter was born in 1932.

Page, along with several partners, decided to go into the toy business in 1932.

The partners opened a small toy shop called Kiddicraft on Godstone Road in Purley, Surrey.

Originally, Page imported wooden toys from Russia, but later began to introduce his own designs.

Page had become increasingly unhappy using wood as a material for children's toys and was an early advocate of plastics as a safe and hygienic alternative.

1936

In 1936, he began manufacturing Kiddicraft ‘Sensible’ toys using new injection moulding technology and in 1937 these were sold under the Bri-Plax brand forming a new company, British Plastic Toys Ltd. Among them was an Interlocking Building Cube, for which he received a British patent in 1940.

Post WWII, Page designed and produced the Kiddicraft Self-Locking Building Bricks, that have been described as the "original LEGO".

Kiddicraft released a series of building sets that LEGO copied in both style and content.

. Kiddicraft's Self-Binding Bricks could be stacked on each other and were held in place by studs on the top.

The bricks also later featured slits on their side that allowed panel-like doors, windows or cards to be inserted.

1938

This research culminated in 1938 in the publication of his book titled Playtime in the First Five Years.

1940

The Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood in London lists the bricks among the "must-have toys" of the 1940s.

Ole Kirk Christiansen and his son Godtfred became aware of the Kiddicraft brick after examining a sample, and possibly drawings, given to them by the British supplier of the first injection moulding machine they had purchased.

1946

Together with his second wife Oreline he adopted twin girls in 1946.

1947

Page patented the basic design, a 2 × 4 studded brick, in 1947.

The Kiddicraft Self-Locking Building Brick sets were first marketed in 1947.

As a promotion Page and his family built large display models for the 1947 Earl's Court Toy Fair.

1949

This was later followed by patents for the side slits (1949) and the baseplate (1952), designs featured in exhibits at the Brighton Toy and Model Museum.

Realising their potential, Ole copied the Kiddicraft brick and in 1949 marketed his own version, The Automatic Binding Brick, that became the Lego brick in 1953.

1950

LEGO claims to acknowledge Kiddicraft as the origin of the plastic bricks on their history website, and further claims when contacted by LEGO in the late 1950s, Kiddicraft gave no objection to the Danish company manufacturing the bricks.

The company later added tubular shapes under most bricks to aid grip.

1957

Troubled by pressures on the business and fearing a collapse of his company, Page died by suicide on 24 June 1957.

1959

British LEGO Ltd. was set up in late 1959 and the first sets were sold the following year, three years following Page's death.

1981

LEGO eventually acquired the residual rights to the Kiddicraft brick designs from Page's descendants in 1981 ahead of legal suits it filed against other plastic building toys made by Tyco and others.

After founding Kiddicraft, Page spent several years studying early childhood play.

He conducted research by spending time playing with children in various nursery schools to find out their interests.

1987

In 1987, his widow stated, "He died before Lego brought out the product in Britain. He didn't know about it."

2007

Page was recognised as an innovator in child education and toy design in 2007 with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Toy and Hobby Association.