Educational toys aren’t a new idea. A rare 19th-century Yankee Schoolmaster toy — also known as the Alphabet Man — was offered in a recent auction. The toy was patented in 1884. Push a lever on the ...

Owner Pete Bultman has also already capitalized on the exposure on the Uncle Goose website. There is now a tagline that reads: "Plenty more alphabets than Google!" Uncle Goose blocks provided the ...

Some celebrities aren't just pretty faces. A few of them are also touched with that Yankee prowess for tinkering and invention. In this weekly series, we introduce you to the Patents of the Rich and ...