A. C. Gilbert Company
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Formerly | Mysto Manufacturing Company |
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Industry | Manufacturing |
Founded | 1909 in Westville, Connecticut |
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Defunct | 1967[1] |
The A. C. Gilbert Company was an American
History
First known as the Mysto Manufacturing Company, the company was founded in 1909 in
In 1911, Gilbert invented the Erector construction toy concept, inspired by railroad girders used by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in its mainline electrification project. Gilbert and his wife Mary developed cardboard prototypes to get the right sizes, openings, and angles to create a robust buildable girder pattern. The Erector set was introduced in 1911, as the Mysto Erector Structural Steel Builder, at the New York City Toy Fair.[3]
In 1916, the name of the company was changed from the Mysto Manufacturing Company to the A. C. Gilbert Company.[2]
In 1920, the company began selling regenerative
Beginning in 1922, A. C. Gilbert made
Between 1946 and 1966, the company manufactured toy trains called the American Flyer.[10]
In the 1950s, sets for other budding scientists included those to investigate
A line of inexpensive reflector telescopes followed the
In 1965, A. C. Gilbert produced James Bond movie tie-in figures and a slot car road race set featuring Bond's Aston Martin DB5.[14]
References
- TheFreeDictionary.com. Retrieved May 24, 2019.
- ^ a b "A. C. Gilbert: The Demise of The A. C. Gilbert Company". Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
- ^ a b "A.C. Gilbert Company". Play and Playground Encyclopedia. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
- ^ Lampkin, Stephanie (2015). "Presto Chango". Distillations. 1 (4): 10–11. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
- ^ "New Stations: Commercial Land Stations", Radio Service Bulletin, October 1, 1921, page 2. Limited Commercial license, serial #232, issued for a 1 year period.
- ^ Radio Manufacturers of the 1920s (Volume 3) by Alan Douglas, 1991, pages 200-203.
- ^ "Alterations and Corrections: Broadcasting Stations", Radio Service Bulletin, January 2, 1923, page 7. WCJ was deleted on December 1, 1922.
- ^ Johnson, Treat B.; Shelton, Elbert M., eds. (1937). Chemistry for boys. A. C. Gilbert Co. pp. 1–10.
- ASIN B0007HIS8W.
- ISBN 978-0911581485.
- ^ "World's Most Dangerous Toy? Radioactive Atomic Energy Lab Kit with Uranium (1950)". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Retrieved 2022-09-17.
- ^ Young, Norman. "Gilbert Atomic Energy - Part I". The Science Notebook. Retrieved 2022-09-17.
- ^ Boyd, Jane E. (2015). "Science as Adventure". Distillations Magazine. 1 (3): 24–25.
- ^ James Bond 007 Road Race Set
External links
- 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 8 Most Wildly Irresponsible Vintage Toys" -- page 1 and page 2 at glass blowing kit (#8); a molten lead casting kit (#7); a chemistry set (#3) which included potassium permanganate, ammonium nitrate and instructions on how to make explosives; and an atomic energy lab (#1) which included uranium and radiumsamples and a coupon for ordering replacement uranium and radium through the mail.
Further reading
- Watson, Bruce (2002). The Man who Changed how Boys and Toys Were Made. Viking Press. pp. 1–256. ISBN 978-0670031344.