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The Eli Whitney Museum's extensive A. C. Gilbert Project includes collections, a bibliography, and pictures of Gilbert; The Gilbert Electric Eye Set with Free Downloadable Manual; Slideshow: Golden Age of Chemistry Sets; Soaring and gliding aircraft This patent was assigned to A.C. Gilbert company. A less successful venture of the company
The museum's main building is located on a portion of the Eli Whitney Gun Factory site, a gun factory erected by Eli Whitney in 1798. The museum focuses on teaching experiments that are the roots of design and invention, featuring hands-on building projects and exhibits on Whitney and A. C. Gilbert .
The Gilbert catalog copy included the reassurance that "All radioactive materials included with the Atomic Energy Lab have been certified as completely safe by Oak-Ridge Laboratories, part of the Atomic Energy Commission." [6] The set originally sold for $49.50 [3] (equivalent to $630 in 2023 [7]) and contained the following: [3] [8] [9]
It focused on Gilbert's successful appeal to the Council of National Defense to reject a proposal to ban toy production in favor of wartime related materials during World War I. An extensive collection of A.C. Gilbert Company scientific and educational children's toys is housed at the Eli Whitney Museum, in Hamden, Connecticut. [citation needed]
Alfred Carlton Gilbert (February 15, [1] 1884 – January 24, 1961) was an American inventor, athlete, magician, toy maker and businessman. As the founder of A. C. Gilbert Company , Gilbert was known for inventing the Erector Set and American Flyer Trains .
Eli Whitney Blake Jr. (April 20, 1836 – October 1, 1895) was an American scientist. His father and namesake was an inventor and partner of the Blake Brothers manufacturing firm. The origin of the name Eli Whitney comes from Blake senior's uncle Eli Whitney, who changed the face of the cotton industry with the invention of the cotton gin. [1]
[1] [2] While she died relatively unknown, her work has been the subject of retrospectives and exhibits, beginning in 1990 at the Eli Whitney Museum in Hamden, Connecticut. [ 3 ] [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 2003, the American Institute of Architects Connecticut began issuing an award in her honour; the Alice Washburn House Award acknowledges excellence in ...
Eli Whitney Museum: Hamden: New Haven: Science: Inventions and inventor Eli Whitney, toy maker A.C. Gilbert: Enoch Kelsey House: Newington: Hartford: Historic house: Operated by the Newington Historical Society, late 18th-century house Fairfield Museum and History Center: Fairfield: Fairfield: Local