He also came up with FischerTechnik, which is a superb building-block system far sturdier than Lego.
http://www.fischertechnik.de/en/Home.aspx
Had a lot of fun with this in my childhood.
http://www.fischertechnik.de/en/Home.aspx
Had a lot of fun with this in my childhood.
http://www.schule-trifft-technik.de/product_info.php/cPath/9...
A class set of a basic Fischertechnik mechanics box. We had a weekly course where we were building various things. The hardest part was to get everything back in the box where it belongs...
Fischer wanted to get kids interested into actually building technical things, as a foundation for the next generation of engineers.