Erector Set
By Bruce Shawkey

aid of the electric motor. The image at left is about as close as I can come to remembering it.
Here's are a couple of sample pages from an Erector Set manual from 1938.




In 1911, Gilbert invented the Erector construction toy concept, inspired by railroad girders used by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. Gilbert and his wife Mary developed cardboard prototypes to get the right sizes, openings, and angles to create a robust buildable girder pattern. The Erector set was introduced in 1911, as the Mysto Erector Structural Steel Builder, at the New York City Toy Fair.
In 1916, the name of the company was changed from the Mysto Manufacturing Company to the A. C. Gilbert Company.
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