This is the story of a great British icon, which, despite being full of holes, conquered the world. It is also the story of why that icon is no longer British but French; why the icon is about to ...

If William Gibson and Bruce Sterling had written an arcade scene into “The Difference Engine”, it probably would have looked a lot like [Pete Wood]’s Meccano Martian Mission, as illustrated in the ...

Meccano's Mattei Theodore gives a tour of the company's ideas factory An anonymous industrial zone on the outskirts of the French port of Calais is home to one of the great historic names in the toy ...

[Brian Leach] of the South East London Meccano Club has put an impressive amount of ingenuity into making his pinball machine almost entirely out of Meccano parts. He started in 2013 and we saw an ...

Once-popular engineering toy, in decline since the 1950s, will still be manufactured by partner companies It is the children’s toy, invented in Britain, that inspired a passion for engineering, ...

Meccano is one of those toys with a very strong nostalgia element, involving memories of hours spent bolting together a toy wheelbarrow or a coffee table-size Forth Bridge. But 21st century kids ...

Since he was a child, Dutch designer Tomm Velthuis has been obsessed with Meccano, a toy set consisting of colorful metal plates, angle girders, and pulleys that can be assembled and reassembled with ...

Some of the toy tech that has shown up at CES this week just makes me wish I was a kid again so that I had an excuse to play with it all day. Leading the pack was definitely the chirruping and highly ...

A multi-coloured footbridge has been built over a canal bed - and it's made out of giant-sized pieces of Meccano. The six-ton steel bridge in the Little Lever area of Bolton cost £90,000 to construct, ...

An anonymous industrial zone on the outskirts of the French port of Calais is home to one of the great historic names in the toy business. Meccano may have been started in the UK more than a century ...