The Toy Maker: The Life and Times of Inventor Frank Hornby

Frank Hornby was a humble desk clerk working for a firm of meat importers in Liverpool when he stumbled across the idea that was to make him famous, that was to inhabit the imaginations of children around the world, and yet was to become one of the most influential tools for the development of inventions as diverse as computers and atomic weapons.
His invention was Meccano – one of the most successful toys of all time.
The toy was the foundation of a business empire that covered seven continents, and promised to last forever. With his later inventions – the Hornby Trainset and the Dinky Toy – the company’s founder was soon revered by small boys the world over. He was quite simply the God of Meccanoland.
For the first time, Frank Hornby, a man of genius, an inventor of magic and toymaker through generations, is given the biography he deserves.