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Radio Leeds,16 Jul 2025,6 mins

The Leeds inventor who gave us the Spirograph

Hidden West Yorkshire

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A local inventor who went from making bicycle springs for Raleigh, to detonators for NATO, to inventing the Spirograph and creating a children's toy company. This is the story of Denys Fisher. Gayle Lofthouse speaks to his son Duncan Fisher.

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