Introduced in 1913 by A.C. Gilbert, Erector sets allowed children to build working models of everything from bridges to locomotives using metal beams, gears, and motors. Dubbed “the toy that ...

Created by Alfred Carlton Gilbert, the maker of the iconic Erector Set (a toy allowing the construction of various objects), the set featured actual uranium samples and tools for observing alpha ...

Created by Alfred Carlton Gilbert, the maker of the iconic Erector Set—an educational toy allowing the construction of various objects—the set featured actual uranium samples and tools for ...

That was the starting point for his hobby of collecting Erector sets and a range of other items produced by the A.C. Gilbert Company of New Haven, Conn. Those items include American Flyer model ...