TOP TOYS: Have you guessed the next top toys from the period
1900-1920? Here’s the rest of list, provided by Bradford Landmark
Society:

6. Radio Flyer Wagon: Already known as a toy wagon maker,
Antonio Pasin chose to name his toys in a way to capture the spirit
of the era he lived in. In 1917, the radio was the newest invention
everyone was talking about. As a radio worked by waves of sound,
the idea of naming his newest wagon after flying radio waves, thus
the Radio Flyer, was born.

7. Tinker Toys: Charles Pajeau was inspired by watching young
children poke sticks into empty spools of thread, designing the
first set in his garage. In Christmas 1914, he hired several little
people to dress as elves and play with his toy in a Chicago
department store window. Within one year, over 1 million sets were
sold.

8. Crayons: Crayola Crayons debuted their first box of eight
crayons in 1903. Creators Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith could
not have imagined that their new product would become a necessity
in every classroom in the country.

9. Tin “Wind-up” Toys: Even though tin toys were being produced
in Germany for years, it was not until the 1900s before American
companies began producing these toys. These toys were made from
metal, covered with tin and painted. Many were mechanical in
nature.

10. Tiddlywinks: Eugene Tiedler owned a clock-making shop where
his workers filled their spare time by playing simple games. The
men would use disc-shaped scraps of wood and try to flip them into
their co-workers’ drinking cups. As the discs were the scraps from
making the eyes of owls for the clocks, one worker happened to call
the discs the owls’ winks, and it soon caught on. After the game
and the name caught on throughout the city of Cincinnati, Tiedler
decided to quickly design a set of rules and began painting the
discs in bright colors. He marketed the game as Tiedler’s Winks and
stopped making clocks by the year 1889. In 1938, it was renamed
Tiddlywinks when Parker Brothers bought the rights.