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Classic Toys Never Go Out Of Style

Who hasn't heard the old saying....back In 1911, on one of his many train trips
when I was young? Times have changed and from New Haven (his home) to New York
so have the toys our children play with. City, he watched out the window as
Video games now dot the landscape with workers positioned and riveted the steel
violence and virtual worlds for our beams of an electrical power line tower.
children to "enjoy". He decided to create a children's
But something else has changed with this construction kit, with evenly spaced
new age, the availability of classic holes for bolts to pass through and he
toys. With the Internet, it is now included nuts, pulleys, gears and
possible to find the toys your eventually engines. Although a British
grandfather or your father grew up company called Meccano was selling a
playing with. These toys never go out of similar toy, Gilbert thought his "erector
style. Let's take a look at the history set" would be more realistic. His set had
of one of these toys: The Erector Set more technical advantages, especially
A. C. Gilbert was a brilliant man. At the steel beams that were not flat, but were
time of his death in 1962, he was bent lengthwise to produce a ninety
credited with 150 patents for the degree angle, thus, four of them joined
inventions that went into his products. together side-to-side, formed a sturdy,
In fact, as a boy he was a talented square support beam.
magician and it was that talent that Backed by the first major American
helped him pay his tuition to Yale advertising campaign for a toy, Gilbert
Medical School. While going to school and started selling the "Mysto Erector
performing as a magician, he formed Mysto Structural Steel Builder" in 1913, (later
Manufacturing, a company that sold magic to be called, simply the "erector set")
kits to children. and the toy became one of the most
Gilbert ultimately finished Yale Medical popular construction toys of all time. It
School, but decided to enter the toy was not unusual for living rooms across
business rather than practice medicine. the country to be crowded with small
He was a gifted inventor and chose to skyscrapers and buildings that young
entertain and educate children. His most minds had carefully crafted. It is
popular invention? The vintage estimated that the A. C. Gilbert Company
construction toy-the erector set. has sold more than 30 million sets.




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