Gilbert Chemistry Outfit
date: label: Date made
content: 1946
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, which Gilbert introduced in 1913, was amazingly successful. Chemistry sets followed soon thereafter. This chemistry set dates from 1946 or later.
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
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Kent C. Boese
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0249.01
label: accession number
content: 1999.0249
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0249.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Chemistry Set
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 9 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 27.94 cm x 23.495 cm x 6.35 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 9/16 in x 11 in x 9 3/8 in; 6.50875 cm x 27.94 cm x 23.8125 cm