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Trix
Trix may refer to: Brands and products * Trix (cereal), a breakfast cereal made by General Mills ** Trix yogurt, branded Yoplait yogurt * Trix (company), the German company that produced Trix construction and model train sets * Trix (construction set), originally produced in Germany and later in the UK * Kodak Tri-X, a popular brand of black-and-white photographic film from Kodak Science and technology * Trix (dinosaur), a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' specimen * TRIX (operating system), start for the first attempt at the GNU kernel * Trix (technical analysis), triple exponential, a technical analysis oscillator * TriX (serialization format), Triples in XML, a serialization of Resource Description Framework models Arts and entertainment * Trix & Flix, the two official mascots for UEFA Euro 2008 * Trix Gilmore, a recurring character on the TV series ''Gilmore Girls'' * Trix MacMillan, a fictional character in the ''Eighth Doctor Adventures'' novels based upon the ''Doctor Who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trix (construction Set)
Trix model construction sets were originally produced in 1931 by a Nuremberg company, Andreas Förtner (Anfoe). The German patent for the basic Trix pieces had been granted the previous year, in 1930. The origin of the name Trix is uncertain; it has been suggested (by Adrie Wind]) that it could have referred to the triple-hole configuration of the basic pieces. A friendship between Bing (company), Stephan Bing, owner of Anfoe, and the English toy manufacturer W J Bassett-Lowke led to the founding of the London company Trix Ltd in 1932. In the United Kingdom, the first sets were advertised in the 1932 Gamages catalogue. Trix sets challenged the British-invented Meccano model construction sets. Meccano Ltd Meccano Ltd was a British toy manufacturing company, established in 1908 by Frank Hornby in Liverpool, England, to manufacture and distribute Meccano and other model toys and kits created by the company. During the 1920s and 1930s it became the ... responded to the challe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
