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Playing With Rare Earth Magnets
Playing With Rare Earth Magnets
Wooden toys have been a hand made tradition for thousands of years. Some of the earliest were probably of animal or human images carved by hand using a small knife. As the industrial age introduced new tools, mass production came into play and the hand made toy rolled off the assembly line. Engineering on a small scale provides hands on experience that demonstrates the function of design for a child to understand. As technology expands new methods are employed to engineer a function. One of the many new features available today is rare earth magnets used to connect pieces of wood together without glue.