Hot Wheels Developer: Elliot Handler

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Chapter 1 Car Creator Hot Wheels cars are some of the most popular and famous toys in history More than 4 billion of them have been produced The cars are made by well-known toy company Mattel Elliot Handler is the cofounder of Mattel and the inventor of Hot Wheels Isadore Elliot Handler was born on April 9 1916 in Chicago Illinois His parents Samuel and Freida were immigrants They were both born in what is now Ukraine Samuel immigrated to the United States in 1906 Freida came to the country in 1914 That year Samuel and Freida were married They moved to Chicago to start a family Soon the couple had three children Albert Isadore and Sylvia Isadore would eventually go by his middle name Elliot But when he was young he went by the nickname Izzy When Izzy was three years old Samuel caught tuberculosis Samuel needed to live somewhere with cleaner air to ease his symptoms So the family moved to Denver Colorado They lived there for the rest of Izzy’s childhood 4