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Subject:	Re: 8 millimeters or 5/16 inches? (was Re: Scales (Was: New Lego page!)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general, lugnet.faq
Date:	Thu, 22 Jul 1999 10:39:18 GMT
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"Eric Brok" <brok@fcjsvc.hvu.nl> writes: > [1] Did you realize, the famousTLG brick patent concerned only *the tube > connectors* under the brick as an *improvement* to the existing brick, not > changing the brick idea, the studs or the dimensions. Does this imply that someone else patented the _original_ brick design, without the tubes? If so, who did? Fredrik

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		Re: 8 millimeters or 5/16 inches? (was Re: Scales (Was: New Lego page!)
(...) Some english company, which TLG bought the original patent from. Someone has a whole website about this, seemed to be fairly miffed about it, and would periodically post the URL to it on RTL... I stopped reading RTL much so can't say if that's (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)

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		Re: 8 millimeters or 5/16 inches? (was Re: Scales (Was: New Lego page!)
A whilo ago it struck me that the base unit of LEGO probably was defined in inches not in mm. 1/16 inch is far more an obvious unit than 1.6 mm. This is an interesting fact, because it reveals the British heritage of the LEGO brick. So while TLG (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)

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