enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Erector Set - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erector_Set

   Erector Set. Erector Set (trademark styled as "ERECTOR") was a brand of metal toy construction sets which were originally patented by Alfred Carlton Gilbert and first sold by his company, the Mysto Manufacturing Company of New Haven, Connecticut, in 1913. In 1916, the company was reorganized as the A. C. Gilbert Company.

3. A. C. Gilbert Company - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._C._Gilbert_Company

   The A. C. Gilbert Company was an American toy company, once one of the largest in the world. Gilbert originated the Erector Set, which is a construction toy similar to Meccano in the rest of the world, and made chemistry sets, microscope kits, and a line of inexpensive reflector telescopes. In 1938, Gilbert purchased the American Flyer, a ...

4. Meccano - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meccano

   From the mid-1910s, in the US, there was a system called Erector, invented by A.C. Gilbert. Erector was largely compatible with Meccano. A.C. Gilbert died in 1961, and the company went into decline, filing for bankruptcy in 1967. After several changes of ownership, in 2000, Meccano bought the Erector brand and unified its presence on all ...

5. A.C. Gilbert, famous for Olympic gold medal and Erector Set ...

   www.aol.com/news/c-gilbert-famous-olympic-gold...

   Salem native A.C. Gilbert is famous for winning an Olympic gold medal and inventing the Erector Set. But he also saved Christmas during World War I.

6. Alfred Carlton Gilbert - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Carlton_Gilbert

   Medal record. Men's athletics. Representing the United States. 1908 London. Pole vault. 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.

7. Meccano Ltd - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meccano_Ltd

   However, in 1929, it sold its New Jersey business to the A. C. Gilbert Company, whose similar Erector Set toy was popular in the United States, and Meccano's trains and construction sets disappeared from the U.S. market by 1930. [4] Dinky 23e model of George Eyston's land record car, "Speed of the Wind". The toy was made from 1936 to 1956