Milton Bradley was an American business magnate, game pioneer and publisher, credited by many with launching the board game industry, with his eponymous enterprise, which was purchased by Hasbro in 1984, and folded in 1998.
15 Facts About Milton Bradley
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Milton Bradley was unable to finish his studies after moving with his family to Hartford, Connecticut, where he could not find gainful employment.
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In 1856, Milton Bradley moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, where he worked as a mechanical draftsman.
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In 1859, Milton Bradley went to Providence, Rhode Island, to learn lithography; and, in 1860, he set up the first color lithography shop in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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Milton Bradley moved forward with an idea he had for a board game which he called The Checkered Game of Life, an early version of what later became The Game of Life.
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When he printed and sold an image of the little-known Republican presidential nominee Abraham Lincoln, Milton Bradley initially met with great success.
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Suddenly, the prints were worthless, and Milton Bradley burned those remaining in his possession.
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Milton Bradley personally sold his first run of several hundred copies in a two-day visit to New York; by 1861, consumers had bought more than 45,000 copies.
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Milton Bradley defined success in secular business terms, depicting life as a quest for accomplishment with personal virtues as a means to that end.
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From 1860 through the 20th century, the company he founded, Milton Bradley Company, dominated the production of American games, including The Game of Life, Easy Money, Candy Land, Operation, and Battleship.
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Milton Bradley published tracts and pamphlets on Friedrich Frobel's kindergarten system.
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Milton Bradley's company produced two magazines, Kindergarten News, and Work and Play.
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Milton Bradley died on May 30,1911, in Springfield, Massachusetts, at age 74.
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Milton Bradley was buried in Springfield Cemetery in a family plot alongside his father Lewis, his mother Fanny, and his first wife Vilona.
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In 2006, Milton Bradley was posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.