By James D. Spina This story actually begins a long time ago in my home town New Haven, Connecticut. I was about four years old. My Dad (“Big Jim”) and his older brother, Giuseppe (Joe), were going to attend a Read More …
(select this link to open video) A film by Thomas B. Barker. 2013 is the 100th Anniversary of the introduction of the ERECTOR SET. This is the story of that event and the company behind it. It also shows the Read More …
Gilbert’s U-238 Atomic Energy Lab was the most elaborate Atomic Energy educational set ever produced. Before Gilbert introduced his own Atomic Energy Lab in 1951, the American Basic Science Club produced their Atomic Energy Lab kit which came with real Read More …
Above: Cover of the 1939 American Flyer catalog Although best remembered for the S gauge trains of the 1950s that it made as a division of the A. C. Gilbert Company, American Flyer was initially an independent company whose origins Read More …
By Bruce Hansen, A.C. Gilbert Heritage Society Newsletter, December 2006 The Magnetic Fun and Facts sets were relatively popular from the 1920s through World War II. Most, if not all, of the experiments continued in Gilbert Electrical sets into the Read More …
By A.D. Goolsby, A.C. Gilbert Heritage Society Newsletter, June 1999 In addition to Erector, A.C. Gilbert was of course responsible for many other products as well. One category that has been “slighted” are the Polar Cub fans. There is a Read More …