Jinn of Quality and Risk (2003-May-17)

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According to critics, an eavesdropper, constantly striving to go behind the curtains of heaven in order to steal divine secrets. May grant wishes.

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2003-May-17

Inventing modular construction toys

Forbes: Alfred C. Gilbert, the father of the Erector Set, wasn't merely making toys. In his eyes, he was building men. ... In The Man Who Changed How Boys and Toys Were Made Bruce Watson tells the story of this gentleman with diverse accomplishments. It starts in 1911 when the 27-year-old Gilbert rides a commuter train into Manhattan. He marvels at a construction crane hoisting giant girders into the sky. He gets an idea. At home that night in New Haven, Connecticut, he and his wife cut out miniature girders from shirt cardboard. A machinist transforms them into steel, and Gilbert adds a thin lip along the edge of each. That gives the little strips of steel rigidity, and it also makes it possible for the strips to be overlapped to make longer pieces. The young inventor already has a degree from Yale Medical School, an Olympic gold medal in the pole vault, and his own company, Mysto Manufacturing, which makes magic tricks. Gilbert introduced his Erector Set at the 1913 New York Toy Fair and had an instant hit. He was, along with his other talents, a marketing genius. See also the A.C. Gilbert Heritage Society and the A.C. Gilbert's Discovery Village, a children's museum in Salem, Oregon.

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