Social Impact of Meccano

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Famous fans

• Karry Kroto, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for co-discovering the Carbon60 "buckyball" structure
  • Article, Daily Telegraph, 2001: "Why Britain needs more Meccano and less Lego" - "You imagine building molecules as if they were bits of Meccano."
  • Interview with Shirley Dent, The Humanist, 2002: "The Meccano Man"

• Trevor Baylis, inventor of clockwork torches and radios
  • Article, The Guardian, 2008 "Invention should be on the national curriculum" - "At the age of five I couldn't write my name, but I could make the most amazing things with my Meccano set."

• Oliver Postgate, whose shed was the site of the SmallFilms studio, which made a range of classic children's TV programmes, from Noggin the Nog and Ivor the Engine to The Clangers.
  • Oliver Postgate, "Starting From Scratch" - Article with photographs, discussing how his animation equipment was partly built out of Meccano, and how the Clangers' poseable skeletons were made from Meccano (the "Iron Chicken" character was also obviously Meccano-based).