Word: erector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thanks partly to a child's built-in facility for destruction and partly to the built-in destructibility of many modern toys. Electric trains, construction sets, Monopoly-style games, and books still have a worthy durability, never go out of style. Gilbert's old reliable Erector Sets now include the materials to build rocket launchers and satellite trackers. Scientific toys, regular catalogue items for four years at F.A.O. Schwarz and other big stores, are even bigger this year. Latest entrant: General Electric, which is aiming at the pre-teen market with a variety of advanced do-it-yourself...
...working so well. (A computer kept typing petulantly: "I can't see a thing without my glasses.") Still others would probably never work at all. Mused an engineer about a crude device for exploring the moon: "It's wonderful what a kid can do with an Erector...
...tangled trellis of thin steel tubing. The cockpit is an open bucket seat, bolted prayerfully to the frame. The power plant is a sputtering, 40-h.p. engine borrowed from a motorcycle. Hovering motionless in midair, its 10-ft. rotor blades windmilling, the makeshift craft looks like an airborne Erector set. But in the hands of an experienced pilot, it can fly like a startled mosquito-straight up to 8,000 ft., forward, sideways or backward at 65 m.p.h., right down to a feather-soft landing on any convenient driveway. Last week, in a dozen U.S. cities from San Diego...
...began making simple magic kits for students. When a department store began selling his kits, he set up the Mysto Manufacturing Co. in a New Haven tool shed and, after he received his M.D., went into business. He did not do well until he got the idea for the Erector set while absentmindedly watching a network of girders being erected for the electrification of the New Haven Railroad. He and his wife made the first set from cardboard parts. In 1916 he changed his firm's name to the A. C. Gilbert...
Died. Alfred Carlton Gilbert, 76, toy inventor and manufacturer who convinced millions of parents that a boy's best friend is his Erector set and who himself lived a real life of fun and games as Olympic pole vaulter and big-game hunter; of a heart attack; in Boston (see BUSINESS...