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It was really
simple, actually! I’d noticed for some time how the use of magnetic
applications in the toys sector was very limited. And so I thought
about
developing one.  My first thought was magnetically linked bricks which
would
offer considerable advantages over the very widespread
interlocking systems.
I personally created
some wooden samples using magnets which I had had for some time, and
what
emerged was effectively very interesting. It was actually during the
drafting
of the first patent application, focused on the attempt to include the
highest
number of possible variants, that I got the idea.
It was like a flash of
inspiration!
Suddenly I saw clearly that the combination  of magnetic
bars and
steel spheres would have allowed an enormous creative freedom.
Immediately
afterwards, however, I came back to earth, and my experience in the
field of
magnetics told me that, despite it being a good idea, the real problem
would
lie in developing a system which was extremely powerful in relation to
its own
weight. Only in this way would I have been able to create something
truly
revolutionary.
I stopped writing immediately and got hold of some steel
spheres. After a number of attempts I finally found the solution.
Connecting
the various magnets with the steel components, in such a way as to
avoid air
interruptions and above all to accumulate in series all the force of
the individual
magnets, I managed to achieve strengths of anchorage  well
beyond my
expectations. And that, with all the refinements later made, was the
beginning
of the system patented by me on which Geomag is based, and on which
numerous
other developments will also be based.
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