Chemistry Set
date: label: Date made
content: 1936
name: label: maker
content: A.C. Gilbert Company
notes: label: Description
content: Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884-1961) was an athlete, inventor, and co-founder of the Mysto-Manufacturing Co, a firm that became the A. C. Gilbert Co. in 1916. The Erector Set, introduced in 1913, was amazingly successful, as were the chemistry sets that followed soon thereafter. This "Chemistry Set for Boys" is dated 1936.
label: Description
content: Ref: “A. C. Gilbert Dead; Invented Erector Set,” <i>New York Times</i> (Jan. 25, 1961), pp. 1 and 33.
label: Description
content: Bruce Watson, <i>The Man Who Changed How Boys and Toys Were Made</i> (New York, 2002).
label: Description
content: Rebecca Onion, <i>Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States</i> (2016).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0221.01
label: accession number
content: 1992.0221
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0221.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Chemistry Set
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper, cardboard (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 34.3 cm x 24.1 cm x 3.8 cm; 13 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 13 1/2 in x 9 5/8 in; 3.81 cm x 34.29 cm x 24.4475 cm