C. Gilbert Co. in 1916. The Erector Set, which Gilbert introduced in 1913, was amazingly successful. Chemistry sets followed soon thereafter. This set may date from the 1950s. Ref: “A. C. Gilbert Dead ...
In 2006, Radar Magazine named it one of the “10 most dangerous toys of all time,” but a 2020 IEEE Spectrum analysis suggested ...
He is most famous for winning an Olympic gold medal in 1908 and inventing the Erector Set five years later. In between those monumental moments, Gilbert graduated from Yale University with a ...