"I wanted it to be a game with no end, like an Erector Set, " he says.
The Erector brand is now owned by Nikko, a Japanese maker of remote-control toy airplanes and cars.
Gilbert introduced his Erector Set at the 1913 New York Toy Fair and had an instant hit.
On transporter erector-launchers, they simply erect it, fire off a ballistic missile, put it down, cover it up.
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Gilbert offered builders of the most ingenious Erector creations lavish prizes, including a full-size automobile and a Shetland pony.
Peach County, Georgia (CNN) -- The strange, twisted metal Erector Set-looking apparatus is known in farming circles as a pivot.
Gilbert offered lavish prizes to builders of the most ingenious Erector creations, including a full-size automobile and a Shetland pony.
Gilbert , inventor of the Erector Set, was also a professional magician, Yale Med School grad, Olympic athlete and big-game hunter.
As it happens, Moscow is actively marketing its SS-25 ICBM as a "START I space launch vehicle, " complete with its standard-issue mobile transporter-erector-launcher.
As Watson's rather strained title suggests, Gilbert pitched the notion that Erector Sets had the power to transform young males from troublemakers into solid citizens.
Gilbert, the inventor of the Erector Set, was also a professional magician, a graduate of Yale Medical School, an Olympic athlete and a big-game hunter.
On the strength of Erector's success, Gilbert branched out into microscopes, chemistry sets and a nuclear science kit containing a small sample of radioactive material.
On the strength of Erector's success, Gilbert branched out into microscopes, chemistry sets and a nuclear science kit, which contained a small sample of radioactive material.
In 1949 Yale Medical School student William Sewell used Erector girders, an Erector motor and rubber flaps from a party noisemaker to craft the first functional artificial heart.
Today's Erector Sets are quite modest alongside Model No. 10.
In 1949 William Sewell, a student at Yale Medical School, used Erector girders, an Erector motor and rubber flaps from a party noisemaker to craft the first functional artificial heart.
But for much of this century they were essentially a preparation for serious adult roles: baby dolls and toy kitchens for girls, erector sets, toy trucks and train sets for boys.
The Gilbert Institute of Erector Engineering proved an especially crafty ploy: Boys coveting the title "Master Engineer" first had to peddle ten Erector Tips subscriptions and, at Christmas, demonstrate Erector Sets in stores.
The Gilbert Institute of Erector Engineering proved an especially crafty ploy: Boys coveting the title "Master Engineer" first had to peddle ten subscriptions to Erector Tips and, at Christmas, demonstrate Erector Sets in stores.
In addition to trains, the auction includes a mind-boggling catalog labeled "art and automobilia" that offers everything from a mint condition pedal car version of a 1923 Packard Deluxe Doctor's Coupe to a 1929 erector set designed to make a model zeppelin.
Is it possible, therefore, that one could be transporting a Scud-type missile -- loaded, not in its hold under sacks of concrete, but onto a transporter-erector-launcher -- and remain undetected as it moved within range of one of America's many littoral population centers?
In 1940 Donald Bailey of Britain's Royal Engineers used his Erector Set to design the portable Bailey Bridge, which spanned creeks and rivers and was hailed by Eisenhower as one of the three most important technological advancements of the war, along with radar and heavy bombers.
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