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By Stefan Sasse

The TIME magazine has put together a real treasure: the hundred most popular toys in America since 1920: the hundred most popular toys in 1920 (read ). It is surprising how much of the stuff you know (probably because, after 1945, with the wave of Americanization came over) and at the same time, as some inventions from the outside - like Lego - had their way to the U.S. and this list. It is a must also to read the respective histories, because they tell more about the United States, when in many quarters gelehrter Bücher findet. Beispiel gefällig?  

During World War II, chemists concerned about America's threatened rubber supply began researching synthetic substitutes and stumbled upon one of the greatest materials in toy history. A "solid liquid," the new, stretchable material was a marvel of science — and of absolutely no use to the American war effort. Dubbed "Nutty Putty," the new substance was marketed as a novelty toy by entrepreneur Peter Hodgson, who sold it packaged inside colorful plastic eggs, just in time for Easter. When a write-up appeared in the New Yorker, Hodgson received more than 250,000 orders in three days. Scientists and toymakers have been refining everyone's nonrubber favorite ever since. The year 1991 saw the introduction of glow-in-the-dark Silly Putty, while NASA learned the substance could be used to restrain objects in zero gravity, taking it aboard Apollo 8 to hold down tools.

And anyone seriously wonder why the Cold War have won? In the Soviet Union it would have taken their own research team to develop these supports, NASA takes a toy that is the result of a failed experiment from the Second World War. Great.