The Spirograph: 50 Years

The Spirograph celebrates 50 years since it boomed into the toy market. Take a look back through time with this neat video!

In 1827 English architect &engineer Peter Hubert Desvignes developed his “Speiragraph”, a machine to create elaborate spiral drawings, intended to prevent bank note forgeries
This became the spark inspiration for the fun Spirograph Toy we know today!

“Spirograph is a geometric drawing toy that produces mathematical roulette curves of the variety technically known as hypotrochoids and epitrochoids. It was developed by British engineer Denys Fisher & first sold in 1965. ” Wikipedia

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