Milton Levine, founder of the science toy company Uncle Milton and inventor of the iconic ant farm habitat, died on January 16, Gifts and Decorative Accessories reports. He was 97.
Levine was married for 65 years to wife Mauricette, and is survived by children Steve, Ellen and Harriet Levine. Steve and Ellen have been involved in running the company since Milton's retirement in the 1980s. The company was sold to a private equity company in 2010.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Levine's first encounters with ants were when he made mini-terrariums of them in Mason jars on his uncle's farm. The company, however, is not named for that uncle -- rather, Levine named it that because people often asked him if he was in the ant business, where was the uncle? He wrote a book called Ant Facts and Fantasies in 1970.
NY Daily News reports:
Levine was watching ants during a Fourth of July picnic in Studio City in 1956 when he was reminded of collecting ants in jars as a child, Levine told the Times in 2002.
He recalled announcing: "We should make an antarium."
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[Source: GeekTyrant]
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