Title	Etch A Sketch
Subject	Business and Labor Arts and Entertainment Toys Ohio Art Company
Place	Bryan (Ohio) Williams County (Ohio)
Description	The Etch A Sketch® toy was invented by Frenchman Arthur Granjean in the late 1950s. Ohio Art Company of Bryan, Ohio bought the rights and the Etch A Sketch® was first produced on July 12, 1960. It contains aluminum powder and plastic beads behind its glass screen. Two knobs control a stylus that runs through the powder, leaving black marks on the screen. Shaking the toy re-coats the screen with the aluminum powder, erasing the image. This Etch A Sketch®, produced around 1975, measures 12 by 9 by 2 inches (30.48 by 22.86 by 5.08 cm).
Creator	Ohio Art Company
Date of Original	1975 circa
Source	Historical object(s) or artifact(s); H 84127
Format	picture; objects
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
File Name	Om1477_1535135_001.tif
Image Height	1960
Image Width	3008
File Size	591.806 KB
Date created	2009-01-07

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