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	A. C. Gilbert Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gilbert's family sold out its shares, and the company was never profitable under its new ownership.
		Gilbert invented Erector in 1911, inspired by railroad girders, and the construction toy was introduced two years later.
		Gilbert re-designed the entire product line, producing 1:64 scale trains running on
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A._C._Gilbert_Company

	Encyclopedia: American Flyer
		Gilbert Company, the makers of Erector Set construction toys, and production moved to New Haven, Connecticut.
		Gilbert Company, American Flyer was initially an independent company whose origins date back nearly a half century earlier.
		Gilbert re-designed the product line and is popularly credited with creating the O27 variant of O gauge in 1939, in which the locomotive and car bodies are scaled to 1:64 scale, making them approximately 25% smaller than the 1:48 standard for O gauge, while still running on the same type of track.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/American-Flyer

	Inventor A. C. Gilbert
		Gilbert's original rival Meccano Company (now Meccano Toys Ltd.) acquired the rights to the Erector Set after 1962, and still sells them today.
		He called it the Erector Set, and the A. Gilbert Company sold 30 million of them.
		Gilbert began selling the "Mysto Erector Structural Steel Builder" in 1913, backed by the first major American ad campaign for a toy.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventors/gilbert.htm

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Erector Sets
		Gilbert and his company produced his toys until his death in 1961.
		Gilbert, founder of the Mysto Magic Company in 1909&; which sold magic trick equipment, introduced the Erector set in 1913.
		In 1965 Gabriel Industries purchased the A.C. Gilbert company, but by the end of the twentieth century, Meccano S. A., who had purchased the Erector trademark around 1990, produced Meccano sets labeled with the Erector name.
	www.findarticles.com /cf_0/g1epc/tov/2419100404/p1/article.jhtml

	Hypnotism and Magic Books and Ephemera
		Gilbert Mysto Magic - Book of Instructions by The A. Gilbert Company.
		George McAthy's Smart Business for Magicians and M. C.'s Comedy magic, funny business, laugh routines, new smart talk.
		Lex Zaleta's tips, routines, and strategies on: past parts revisited, bill tube, conjure ring, mini-miracle balls and more.
	www.the-forum.com /books/hypno.htm

	AC Gilbert Company - Dolls 1965
		The doll books I have, do not list a Gilbert Toy Company, so I assume that this is the AC Gilbert Company that sold trains and erector sets so popular with boys, that began in 1909-1967.
		died in 1961 and the company was sold to the Gabriel Company in 1967.
		Items pictured here are for reference only, not for sale.
	members.tripod.com /ltanis/gilbert_toy_company_dolls.htm

	Gilbert Family Photos - A.C. Gilbert Jr.
		This Web site contains photographs of Alfred C. Gilbert, A.C. Gilbert, Jr., and related images of the A.C. Gilbert Company of New Haven, Conn.
		Alfred Carlton Gilbert, Jr., was born Dec. 1, 1919 at New Haven, Conn.; married Nov. 28, 1942 at Farmington, Conn. to Julie Jean Tibbetts; died June 28, 1964, at New Haven, Conn.
		These images were scanned from the Gilbert Family's private collection by David T. Gilbert in August 1999.
	www.frontiernet.net /~davegilbert/acg/acjr.htm

	Eli Whitney Museum - A.C. Gilbert
		His New Haven-based A.C. Gilbert Company became, by 1941, the world's largest toy manufacturing company.
		Gilbert put into hands of children the spirit of that era.
		Gilbert invented access to science just as science began to transform our society.
	www.eliwhitney.org /ac.htm

	AC Equipment Direct: Welcome! - HVAC, TEMPSTAR & HEAT PUMP
		Would you buy a TV from your Cable Company?
		That’s why we decided to use our 38 years of experience on the Contracting side of the HVAC field to build this site as a way to offer what we believe to be a beneficial and long overdue service to the American public.
		Would you buy light bulbs from your Electrician?
	www.acequipmentdirect.com

	MAINSPRING PRESS ARTICLE: Kiddie Record Wars
		In 1921, flush with the success of its Erector Sets and other popular toys, the A. Gilbert Company joined the kiddie-record fray with its Bobolink phonographs and records.
		By early 1922, A. had disposed of his record business to his brother, F.W. Gilbert, president and treasurer of the LaVelle Manufacturing Company.
		The company seemed determined to undermine its competition, retailing Cameo-Kid for a mere 15¢ each, a challenge that was answered almost immediately with Plaza's introduction of the 15¢ Playtime label.
	www.mainspringpress.com /kiddie.html

	Salem, Oregon Public Library Online Encyclopedia
		A. Gilbert, a Salem-born toy inventor, breaks the record for pole vaulting, wins gold medal for vaulting during the London Olympic Games.
		Gilbert and Sullivan produce "The Mikado" in London.
		A.C. Gilbert’s American Flyer "S" gauge toy train is introduced.
	www.salemhistory.net /time_line/timeline.htm

	American Flyer Trains: New Challengers Of The High Iron - A. C. GILBERT COMPANY
		GILBERT COMPANY American Flyer Trains: New Challengers Of The High Iron
		New Haven, CT, A. Gilbert Company, 1939, First Edition.
		Light wear along spine, two small closed tears, else a very good+ copy.
	antiqbook.com /boox/gaq/010107.shtml

	A.C. GILBERT FAN
		Description: This is a metal electric fan in good working condition, that was made by the A.C. Gilbert Company, patent #1938380.
		There is an aluminum tag in the middle of the cage for the fan that says "Polar Cub", it is on upside down, but could be changed easily.
		Shipping outside United States: Quoted at time of purchase
	www.antiqnet.com /detail,gilbert-fan,320011.html

	Rubens, Peter Paul to Ryle, Gilbert. Alphabetic Index to Entries. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
		Click here to download the Dictionary and Thesaurus.
		Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction
	www.bartleby.com /65/index207.html

	Index to Comic Art Collection: "Cusachs" to "Customs"
		-- New Haven, Conn. : A.C. Gilbert Company, 1958.
		-- Jackson, Mich. : Consumers Power Company, 1970.
		Custom Comics, Inc. Call no.: Q163.G5 1958 ----------------------------------------------------- Custom Comics, Inc. The Story of Electricity / American Electric Power System, Indiana & Michigan Electric Company.
	www.lib.msu.edu /comics/rri/crri/cus.htm

	PhatNav Directory - Recreation/Collecting/Toys/Erector_Sets
		Erector Sets and other toys produced by the A.C. Gilbert Company between 1913 and 1962
		Bill Bean's Erector Set and A.C. Gilbert Website
		Entries below may contain matching catagories, paths to similar directories, and suggested Web sites.
	phatnav.com /directory/Recreation/Collecting/Toys/Erector_Sets.cat

	Mountain Architecture: Chapter II
		The Curry Company's directors selected an energetic, young architect from Los Angeles, Gilbert Stanley Underwood, for the project, with the instructions that he design for them a "hotel that fits the environment."
		Crater Lake Lodge was erected by the National Park Service, but the plans have been attributed to a Portland architectural firm, R. Hockenberry and Company (Figure 2.61).
		The agreement between the National Park Service and the Yosemite Park and Curry Company stipulated that "The National Park would own the land and structure, and set the rates for a hotel; the Company would build the lodge, furnish it, and operate it under a renewable twenty-year contract."
	www.seanet.com /~tdeering/thesis/ch-2d.htm (4338 words)

	Jay Miller- Erector Sets Page 1
		After the elder Gilbert's death in 1956, the company tried to keep pace with changing times but even with space age additions to the product line, could not compete with television, the Beatles and the transistor.
		The Gilbert company produced not only Erector sets, but a complete line of chemistry and scientific sets as well as his American Flyer line of model trains.
		Soon, the mechanical construction toy would eclipse the magic business and the A. Gilbert Company (he bought out his partners in the predecessor Mysto Manufacturing Company) would achieve world wide fame with the talented and outgoing Gilbert at the helm for nearly 50 years.
	www.kk5im.com /erector.html (405 words)

	Barringer Meteorite Crater * Meteorites Craters and Impacts
		Recognizing that the Crater is a unique natural land-mark of great scientific importance, strong public interest, and significant educational value, it is the company's long-held policy to maintain the property in as nearly a natural state as possible and to ensure appropriate and controlled access to it by the general public.
		Gilbert concluded that a steam explosion was the only surviving hypothesis, in spite of the fact that no volcanic rocks had ever been found in the area.
		Gilbert himself, ironically, was one of the first to argue for an impact origin, in a paper published in 1893.
	www.barringercrater.com /science (10017 words)

	project3-1.html
		As a result of the company becoming more educational and less magical, the company was renamed the A.C. Gilbert Company
		A.C. Gilbert, as he was known, was a true modern renaissance man. He was a athlete, a doctor although he never practiced and a capatalist.
		A.C. Alfred Carlton Gilbert was responsible for revolutionizing the educational toy industry.
	www.otal.umd.edu /~vg/amst205.F96/vj52/project3-1.html (594 words)

	Essanay Studios
		Essanay Studios was a motion picture company founded in Chicago, Illinois by George K. Spoor and Gilbert Anderson (Broncho Billy) under the name Essanay (S and A).
		When the Supreme Court of the United States ruled against the MPPC (Motion Picture Patents Company), the Essanay company collapsed and was sold after only ten years in business.
		It produced silent films with such stars as Ben Turpin, Wallace Beery, Francis X. Bushman[?], Gloria Swanson and Charlie Chaplin.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/es/Essanay_Studios.html (594 words)

	American Flyer Trains from Marty's Trains - American Flyer Warehouse
		Traditional toy manufacturers such as Gilbert were forced to cut corners to compete, and the result for American Flyer was the introduction of Pikemaster, a line of inferior quality trains.
		Gilbert was a manufacturer of toys and small appliances, and was best known for its Erector sets, Mysto-Magic sets, and science toys.
		The venture proved successful, and the following year the company ceased producing hardware and devoted its efforts to producing trains full-time, changing its name to the American Flyer Manufacturing Company.
	americanflyerwarehouse.com /history.php (594 words)

	FunFanFacts.doc
		This first model fan by the Gilbert Company was a Type E and is still a plug-in type fan with no switch.
		Upon completion of The A. Gilbert Company, fan manufacturing continued with some minor changes.
		Gilbert went on to produce many fans through the 30s and 40s, some being very deco and stylish.
	darryl.hudson.home.mindspring.com /FunFanFacts.doc (9444 words)

	Physics and Astronomy Forums - Toys, Physics, Principles
		Event: The purchase from Joe Falk Toys the best superdooper chemistry set that the A. Gilbert Company marketed.
		Like many other individuals my contact with the products of the A. Gilbert Company was extensive: Erector sets, microscopes, magic, model trains, physics and chemistry sets.
		Gilbert started in 1909 with the Mysto Manufacturing Co. and his magic sets; erector sets in 1913; chemistry sets in 1922; microscope sets in 1935; S gauge model trains [American Flyer Manufacturing Co.] in 1946; atomic energy sets in 1951.
	www.physlink.com /Community/Forums/printthread.cfm?Forum=17&Topic=2046 (2886 words)

	bellpage.data
		(Series: Subject File, Folder: Aviation, Curtiss Aeroplane Motor Company, 1916)","magbell","145/14500105","0001i.gif","1","1","","0001i.jpg" "Letter from Edwin Grosvenor to Gilbert Grosvenor, February 25, 1916- Transcription
		(Series: Subject File, Folder: Aviation, Curtiss Aeroplane Motor Company, 1916)","magbell","145/14500105","0003.gif","3","3","","0003.jpg" "Letter from Edwin Grosvenor to Gilbert Grosvenor, February 25, 1916- Transcription
		(Series: Subject File, Folder: Aviation, Curtiss Aeroplane Motor Company, 1916)","magbell","145/14500105","0002i.gif","2","2","","0002i.jpg" "Letter from Edwin Grosvenor to Gilbert Grosvenor, February 25, 1916- Transcription
	lcweb2.loc.gov /mss/magbell/145/14500105/bellpage.data (88 words)

	War Stories Archive
		Those mines were intended to kill a large number of our men and, in retrospect, Gilbert and Reiter gave their lives for a very large number of their buddies.
		Captain Max Eisner had the men unload all gear and equipment from every truck in the company so that they could go back to fill them with bricks and rubble.
		When the rest of the company returned Captain Eisner called a halt to all operations until morning.when a thorough mine check or the area Could be completed safely.
	www.104infdiv.org /viewarticle.asp?id=12 (922 words)

	Oregon Blue Book: Notables- A.C. Gilbert
		Despite his athletic successes and his medical degree, Gilbert focused on manufacturing magic sets after he and a partner formed the Mysto-Manufacturing Company based in New Haven, Connecticut in 1909.
		By 1915 the new A.C. Gilbert Company was producing the girder-based erector sets, which soon became very popular.
		Alfred Carlton Gilbert was born on February 15, 1884 in Salem, Oregon.
	bluebook.state.or.us /notable/notgilbert.htm (394 words)

	A. C. Gilbert
		ALFRED C. GILBERT, New Haven, Conn., assignor to The A. Gilbert Company,.New Haven, Conn., a Corporation of Connecticut.
		ALFRED C. GILBERT, New Haven, Conn., assignor to The A. Gilbert Company, New Haven, Conn., a Corporation of Connecticut.
		In a toy wheel, a pair of sheet metal disks having registering openings therein, and a hollow sheet metal hub having lugs passing through and clenched in said openings and having an end wall spaced from said lugs; substantially as described.
	www.eliwhitney.org /gil/patents.htm (811 words)

	Civilization.ca - Voyages of Martin Frobisher - Northwestern exploration before Frobisher
		Interest was revived in the 1570s, when a search was conceived by a contingent within the Company, led by Michael Lok, with Gilbert and Dee as advisors, backing from Lord Burghley, and an experienced and bold seaman, Martin Frobisher, ready to lead the mission.
		In 1566 Humphrey Gilbert sought the Queen's support for a search a northwest passage, but the Muscovy Company blocked the initiative.
		The expedition of 1551-1553 failed to reach Cathay, but did open a new market in Russia and resulted in the formation of the Muscovy Company.
	www.warmuseum.ca /hist/frobisher/frsub01e.html (551 words)

	Universal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Universal was also a video game company primarily active in the 1980s.
		Universal is a song from the album Gilbert Hotel by Paul Gilbert, of heavy metal band Racer X and hard rock band Mr.
		A universal proposition is a proposition affirming a property of all the members of a collection.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Universal (551 words)

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