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What does it take to keep kids amused? Before the invention of electronic games and smartphones, that was a more complicated question for parents. Burt Meyer provided many of the answers. Meyer, who ...

Burt Meyer, the inventor behind iconic toys like Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, Lite-Brite, and MouseTrap, has died at age 99 Burt Meyer, who invented toys like Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, Lite-Brite and ...

Starting in the 1960s, he collaborated on the designs of classic toys like Mouse Trap, Toss Across and Mr. Machine. By Richard Sandomir In the early 1960s, the toy inventor Burt Meyer went to an ...

Meyer also created board games like Mouse Trap and Pretty Pretty Princess Lauren A. Little/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle/Getty Famed toy designer Burt Meyer has died at the age of 99 Meyer created ...

In interviews, Meyer often drew parallels between aerospace engineering and toy design, saying both required ingenuity and teamwork. (The Strong National Museum of Play via AP) The latest headlines ...

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