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Gilbert Hydraulic And Pneumatic Engineering
Carleton John Lynde, Alfred Carlton Gilbert
The A.C. Gilbert Company, 1920
Hydraulic engineering; Pneumatics
Alfred Carlton Gilbert was an American inventor, athlete, magician, toy-maker and businessman.
Background
Gilbert was born on February 15, 1884 in Salem, Oregon, the son of Frank Newton Gilbert and of Charlotte Ann Hovenden. His father, a banker, moved his family in 1894 to Moscow, Idaho. There, in a gym that he and his two brothers built, young Gilbert began the athletic career that became his first vocation.
Education
Gilbert was educated at the Tualatin Academy and attended Pacific University in nearby Forest Grove, Oregon, where he was a brother of the Gamma Sigma Fraternity. He left Pacific after 1902 and transferred to Yale University, financing his education by working as a magician, and earning a degree in sports medicine.
Career
Young Gilbert began the athletic career in Moscow, Idaho. He was skilled in gymnastics, wrestling, boxing, and track and field. When Gilbert was sixteen, the family returned to Oregon, and in the next four years he added football to his athletic repertoire, and became captain of the college track team. He won prizes for wrestling, and was reported by the Portland Oregonian to have broken the world pull-up record by chinning himself forty times. In 1908, the year before he received the M. D. at Yale, he set a new record (12 feet, 7. 75 inches) for the pole vault, at the Olympic trials in Philadelphia. That summer he tied for the Olympic championship in London with a 12-foot, 2-inch vault. His interest in the pole vault continued: he coached at Yale in the late 1920's and wrote the article on pole vaulting in the fourteenth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Gilbert studied medicine because it seemed to him the best preparation for an athletic director; he had no interest in a medical practice. When he graduated, he and John Petrie formed the Mysto Manufacturing Company, which produced kits for sleight-of-hand performers. The Mysto Manufacturing Company was not an unqualified success. Retail stores hesitated to carry magic kits because they thought most of the potential buyers could not perform the tricks. Gilbert opened a store in New York City in 1910, assigning one of the magicians he had engaged as salesmen to manage it. The next year he opened similar stores in Philadelphia and Chicago, but in 1911 the company's net profit was only $360. En route to visit his store in New York, Gilbert became fascinated by the construction of power lines for the electrification of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, on which he was riding. Watching crews assemble the network of girders to support trolley wires gave him the idea on which his toymaking business was built. Gilbert made cardboard designs for plates and girders, and sketched axles, pulleys, and the other parts that would make the Erector Set "the world's greatest construction toy for boys. " A New Haven toolmaker made working models in steel, and the Mysto Manufacturing Company entered a new era. Within five years, renamed the A. C. Gilbert Company, it was a million-dollar enterprise. He also recalled with pleasure that the famed Bailey bridge, developed by the Allied forces during World War II, was based on a scale model built with an Erector Set. With Erector firmly established, Gilbert went on to produce a number of other instructional toys, and a series of books to go with them: for example, Meteorology (1920), Magnetic Fun and Facts (1920), Coin Tricks for Boys (1920), Chemical Magic (1920), Carpentry for Boys (1920), Handkerchief Tricks (1920), Sound Experiments (1920), Mineralogy for Boys (1922), Knots and Splices (1920), and 75 Electrical Toys and Tricks. (1932) In 1929, on the advice of his bankers, Gilbert sold a 49 percent interest in the company for $1. 25 million, which he invested conservatively and therefore was able to survive the stock market crash. In later years, however, occasional tensions with his stockholders apparently made him wonder whether he should have sold any of his stock. In 1938, Gilbert acquired the American Flyer Company, redesigned its train models, and added another successful line to the Gilbert catalog. In 1956 he turned over the presidency to his son and became chairman of the board. Thereafter he spent much time at Paradise, his 600-acre estate near Hamden, Connecticut Gilbert was founding president, in 1916, of the Toy Manufacturers' Association of U. S. A. , Incorporated, and a member of the Association of Amateur Athletes of America. He died in Boston on January 24, 1961.