Pulleys, identical to spools, except that the center holes are loose-fitting.Couplings, small cylindrical pieces (originally wood later plastic) approximately 2 inches long and half an inch in diameter, with snug-fitting blind-drilled holes in either end, and a loose-fitting through-drilled hole crosswise through the center of the part.Caps, originally wooden, but later plastic, cylindrical pieces with a single blind axial hole snugly fitted to the rods.
Like spools, their center holes have a snug fit.
Wheels, which are thinner than spools, but larger in diameter. In addition to the spools, a standard Tinkertoy set includes: The US rights are now owned by Basic Fun!. Hasbro bought the Tinkertoy brand and currently produces both Tinkertoy Plastic and Tinkertoy Classic (wood) sets and parts. Tinkertoys were inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong in Rochester, New York, in 1998. The main manufacturing location was a 65,000-square-foot four-story plant at 2012 Ridge Avenue, Evanston, Illinois. In the 1950s, color was added and the wooden sticks appeared in red, green, blue, and peach. A colorful "how-to" instruction guide accompanied each set. To assist buyers in differentiating between the various offerings, sets were placed in mail tube packages of different sizes and also delineated with a number (e.g.: 116, 136) and a name (e.g.: major, prep, big boy, junior, grad). Early versions of the packaging included an address label on the tube with space for postage. Initially, the mailing tube design was chosen to reduce shipping costs. One of Tinkertoy’s distinctive features is the toy’s packaging. Tinkertoys have been used to construct complex machines, including Danny Hillis's tic-tac-toe-playing computer (now in the collection of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California) and a robot at Cornell University in 1998. The sets were introduced to the public through displays in and around Chicago which included model Ferris wheels. With the differing-length sticks, the set was intended to be based on the Pythagorean progressive right triangle. 
Unlike the center, the perimeter holes do not go all the way through. The cornerstone of the set is a wooden spool roughly two inches (5 cm) in diameter, with holes drilled every 45 degrees around the perimeter and one through the center. After an initially-slow start, over a million were sold. Pajeau partnered with Robert Pettit and Gordon Tinker to market a toy that would allow and inspire children to use their imaginations. Pajeau, a stonemason, designed the toy after seeing children play with sticks and empty spools of thread. Pajeau, who formed the Toy Tinker Company in Evanston, Illinois to manufacture them. It was designed in 1914-six years after the Frank Hornby's Meccano sets-by Charles H. The Tinkertoy Construction Set is a toy construction set for children.
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