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
Denys brass, Olveston father to L in Dexter position of honour. Russell was his heiress-mother, Gorges a former Russell heiress. On the R. is Sir Walter Denys, the son, with the arms of his co-heiress 2nd. wife, Agnes Danvers, in the 4th. Q. Denys:"3 leopards' faces jessant-de-lys, over all a bend engrailled". With tinctures it becomes:"Gules, 3 leopards' faces or jessant-de-lys azure, over all a bend engrailled of the last".The Denys arms blazoned with these tinctures survive earliest in BL Add.MS 45131,f.54, a 1509 drawing of Hugh Denys of Osterley(d.1511) at the deathbed of Henry VII. The armourials are the arms of Cantilupe