http://wkdq.com Mon, 20 May 2013 04:11:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://wkdq.com/etch-a-sketch-inventor-andre-cassagnes-dies-in-france/ http://wkdq.com/etch-a-sketch-inventor-andre-cassagnes-dies-in-france/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2013 03:00:02 +0000 Jon Prell http://wkdq.com/?p=139151 Andre Cassagnes died on January 16th in a Paris suburb. His name is not immediately known by most of us, but his invention, the Etch A Sketch, is one of the most iconic toys of the last 50 years - a staple of the Ohio Art Company. Cassagnes, a French electrician, came up with the idea in 1950 after peeling a decal off of a light switch plate and noticing the graphite stuck to the plastic surface of the plate that was easily marked with a pencil.

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