K'NEX are made by K'NEX Industries, Inc., a privately held company, and are distributed by the toy company Hasbro. The LEGO toy company was founded by Ole Kirk Christiansen of Denmark in 1932, but the company then sold mostly wooden toys. Christiansen was a carpenter from the Danish village of Billund. Lego toys were first sold in the USA in 1961. LEGO people were introduced in 1974.
Children can easily make log cabins and other structures from the tiny wooden logs.
John patented his toy in 1920, and sold the logs through his toy company, the Red Square Toy Company. Marconi won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909. He developed this indoor game so that his students could participate in sports during the winter. The first public basketball game was in Springfield, MA, USA, on March 11, 1892. Naismith was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1978.