In 2006, Radar Magazine named it one of the “10 most dangerous toys of all time,” but a 2020 IEEE Spectrum analysis suggested ...

He is most famous for winning an Olympic gold medal in 1908 and inventing the Erector Set five years later. In between those monumental moments, Gilbert graduated from Yale University with a ...

That was the starting point for his hobby of collecting Erector sets and a range of other items produced by the A.C. Gilbert Company of New Haven, Conn. Those items include American Flyer model ...