Classic Country Toys

Classic Country Toys

Author: Bruce Wexler

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2022-05-03

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 1510756957

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A fascinating collection of classic country toys. In Classic Country Toys, Bruce Wexler takes us all on a trip down memory lane, and beyond, by providing an illustrated history of playthings with a country theme from 1880 to the present day. Here in clear, detailed color photographs are over 150 important landmark toys of all kinds—from Marx farm trucks, Buddy-L fire trucks, Tonka pickups, Howdy Doody dolls, Cabbage Patch Kids, Red Ryder BB guns, Fanner cap pistols, Tootsietoy cars, and Woodhaven and Ertl farm machinery through to modern classics like Dukes of Hazzard action figures and Woody from Toy Story. Through professional photography, each toy is featured in close-up detail to highlight its most special qualities, including the inventive ways the toys' young owners used them. All toys, from the collection of the World's Largest Toy Museum in Branson, Missouri, are guaranteed to help us recapture a cherished piece of childhood. At once a tribute to America's rural roots and a joyful reminder of how much one doll or toy can matter, this fascinating illustrated history will warm the hearts of toy-lovers young and old.


Automata and Mechanical Toys

Automata and Mechanical Toys

Author: Mary Hillier

Publisher: Landmark Books International

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781870630276

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This book deals with the evolution of mechanical toys following on the history of automata from very early times.


The History of Toys

The History of Toys

Author: Deborah Jaffé

Publisher: Sutton Pub Limited

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780750938495

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An illustrated chronicle of toy history includes coverage of objects that have remained popular throughout the ages whose designs have been shaped by progressive technologies, new materials, and the advent of mass production.


Human Motion Analysis

Human Motion Analysis

Author: Gerald F. Harris

Publisher: Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers(IEEE)

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13:

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This text is designed to address current applications and future directions in human motion analysis. It has been written to convey basic as well as advanced concepts to engineers (Part I) and clinicians (Part II). Part I presents current and emerging concepts in motion analysis technology. Part II addresses the important aspects of clinical data interpretation and decision making with numerous examples.


Toys with Nine Lives

Toys with Nine Lives

Author: Andrew McClary

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780208023865

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Considers how toys changed over the centuries in America as a rural society was gradually urbanized.


Toys Games

Toys Games

Author: Warwick Henderson

Publisher: White Cloud Books

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781869664855

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Discover fascinating toys, games and inventions that have changed the course of history - from ancient Egypt to the Industrial Revolution, the space race and beyond. Toys are living proof of social changes, trends and fashions, design styles, manufacturing and industrial developments over time. The Fascinating History of Toys & Games Around the World details collectible toys and games from cast-iron soldiers to plastic robots, horse-drawn coaches to streamline convertibles, and an overdressed cyclist to a miniskirted tennis player doll - these are not just toys but objects that showcase an era or segment of history. What game did Tutankhamun play with? Who won the world's first air race? Why was plastic invented? What toy provided inspiration for the invention of the taser? Which Star Wars figurine sold for $76,000? Read about the toys you wish you still owned or perhaps still covet. Every toy tells a story in this rich and wonderful illustrated history.