Скачать или смотреть The Dark Story Of Gilbert Toys: How Erector Sets Built America - Then Collapsed

In the early 1950s, the A.C. Gilbert Company employed 2,500 workers in New Haven, Connecticut, and had sold over 30 million Erector Sets. Its American Flyer trains and chemistry kits inspired a generation of young engineers and scientists.

But after founder Alfred Carlton Gilbert’s death in 1961, poor leadership, corporate missteps, and a disastrous takeover led the once-iconic toy empire to collapse by 1967. Thousands lost their jobs, the Erector Square factory shut down, and a 50-year legacy came to an abrupt end.

This is the rise and fall of the company that shaped America’s scientific imagination — and vanished almost overnight.

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