Denys Fisher Denys Fisher Denys Fisher (11 May 1918 – 17 September 2002) was an English engineer who invented the spirograph toy and created the company Denys Fisher Toys. He left Leeds University to join the family firm, Kingfisher (Lubrication) Ltd. In 1960 he left the firm to set up his own company, Denys Fisher Engineering, in Leeds. In 1961 the company won a contract with NATO to supply springs and precision components for its 20 mm cannon. Between 1962 and 1964 he developed various drawing machines from Meccano pieces, eventually producing a prototype Spirograph. Patented in 16 countries, it went on
Herman Fisher manufactured 16 wooden toys which proved highly popular at the American International Toy Fair in New York City. Fisher was the president and chairman of the Fisher-Price company from its inception in 1930 to 1969. He was instrumental in building Fisher-Price into the world's largest manufacturer of preschool toys. Along with Irving Price and Helen Schelle, he established the simple but strict Fisher-Price creed: ""Fisher-Price toys should have intrinsic play value, ingenuity, strong construction, good value and action"." Herman Fisher was also instrumental in spearheading many 'firsts' in the toy industry. He coined the term “preschool toys” with the advent