It’s not the end for Meccano or Erector Set ... but it opens the age-old question of what remains to interest young minds in engineering or technology. The obvious answer to that question ...

He grew up playing with model construction sets. As an adult, he tinkered with molecules instead, creating nanomachines and ...

MELBOURNE - Sir James Fraser Stoddart, a Scottish-born scientist who went from playing with construction sets as a boy to ...

I had dug it out of the cellar when I was eleven years old, and just cleaning and lubricating it, tightening its screws and ...

Dinky toys began life in 1934 as a Meccano spin-off owned by Hornby. The first range ... Additional models were produced in Hong Kong and in India using old dies. It was a previously unrecorded van ...

The bridge connecting the Western Avenue footpath with Andover town centre had been closed for safety reasons after it fell into disrepair.

Venus hasn’t received nearly the same attention from space programs as Mars, largely due to its exceedingly hostile environment. Most electronics wouldn’t survive the 462 °C heat, never mind ...