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A. C. Gilbert Company

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The A. C. Gilbert Company was an American toy company, once one of the largest toy companies in the world. [1]

42 relations: A. C. Gilbert's Discovery Village, Aircraft, Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American Comics Group, American Flyer, Ammonium nitrate, Aston Martin, Chemistry set, Clarence D. Tuska, Cracked.com, Eli Whitney Museum, Erector Set, Erector Square, Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory, Glassblowing, Hamden, Connecticut, HO scale, James Bond, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Lionel, LLC, Louis Marx and Company, Magic (illusion), Meccano, New Haven, Connecticut, New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, O scale, Potassium permanganate, Radioactive decay, Radium, Rail transport modelling, S scale, Slot car, Sputnik 1, Tie-in, Toy, United States, Uranium, Vacuum tube, WCJ, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Westville, New Haven, World War II.

A. C. Gilbert's Discovery Village

The Gilbert House Children's Museum is an interactive children's museum located in Salem, Oregon, United States.

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Aircraft

An aircraft is a machine that is able to fly by gaining support from the air.

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Alfred Carlton Gilbert

Alfred Carlton Gilbert (February 15, 1884 – January 24, 1961) was an American inventor, athlete, magician, toy-maker and businessman.

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American Comics Group

American Comics Group (ACG) was an American comic book publisher which existed from 1943 to 1967.

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American Flyer

American Flyer is a brand of toy train and model railroad manufactured in the United States.

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Ammonium nitrate

Ammonium nitrate is a chemical compound, the nitrate salt of the ammonium cation.

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Aston Martin

Aston Martin Lagonda Limited is a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars and grand tourers. It was founded in 1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford. Steered from 1947 by David Brown, it became associated with expensive grand touring cars in the 1950s and 1960s, and with the fictional character James Bond following his use of a DB5 model in the 1964 film Goldfinger. Their sports cars are regarded as a British cultural icon. Aston Martin has held a Royal Warrant as purveyor of motorcars to the Prince of Wales since 1982. It has over 150 car dealerships in over 50 countries on six continents making them a global automobile brand. Their headquarters and the main production site are in Gaydon, Warwickshire, England, alongside one of Jaguar Land Rover's development centres on the site of a former RAF V Bomber airbase. One of Aston Martin's recent cars was named after the 1950s Vulcan Bomber. Aston Martin has exploited its branding for projects including speed boats, submarines, bicycles, monster trucks, clothing and real estate development..

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Chemistry set

A chemistry set is an educational toy allowing the user (typically a teenager) to perform simple chemistry experiments.

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Clarence D. Tuska

Clarence Denton "C.

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Cracked.com

Cracked.com is a humor website with over 300 million monthly page views.

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Eli Whitney Museum

The Eli Whitney Museum, in Hamden, Connecticut, is an experimental learning workshop for students, teachers, and families.

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Erector Set

An Erector Set (trademark styled as "ERECTOR") is a brand of metal toy construction sets, originally patented by Alfred Carlton Gilbert and first sold by his company, the Mysto Manufacturing Company of New Haven, Connecticut in 1913.

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Erector Square

Erector Square is located at the intersection of Blatchley Avenue and Peck Street in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory

The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab is a toy lab set that was produced by Alfred Carlton Gilbert, who was an American athlete, magician, toy-maker, business man, and inventor of the well-known Erector Set.

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Glassblowing

Glassblowing is a glassforming technique that involves inflating molten glass into a bubble (or parison), with the aid of a blowpipe (or blow tube).

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Hamden, Connecticut

Hamden is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.

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HO scale

HO or H0 is a rail transport modelling scale using a 1:87 scale (3.5 mm to 1 foot).

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James Bond

The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections.

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Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Lancaster is a city located in South Central Pennsylvania which serves as the seat of Pennsylvania's Lancaster County and one of the oldest inland towns in the United States.

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Lionel, LLC

Lionel, LLC is an American designer and importer of toy trains and model railroads that is based in Concord, North Carolina.

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Louis Marx and Company

Louis Marx and Company was an American toy manufacturer in business from 1919 to 1980.

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Magic (illusion)

Magic, along with its subgenres of, and sometimes referred to as illusion, stage magic or street magic is a performing art in which audiences are entertained by staged tricks or illusions of seemingly impossible feats using natural means.

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Meccano

Meccano is a model construction system created in 1898 by Frank Hornby in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

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New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad

The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, commonly known as the New Haven, was a railroad that operated in northeastern United States from 1872 to 1968, dominating the region's rail traffic for the first half of the 20th century.

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O scale

O scale (or O gauge) is a scale commonly used for toy trains and rail transport modelling.

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Potassium permanganate

Potassium permanganate is an inorganic chemical compound and medication.

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Radioactive decay

Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay or radioactivity) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy (in terms of mass in its rest frame) by emitting radiation, such as an alpha particle, beta particle with neutrino or only a neutrino in the case of electron capture, gamma ray, or electron in the case of internal conversion.

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Radium

Radium is a chemical element with symbol Ra and atomic number 88.

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Rail transport modelling

Railway modelling (UK, Australia and Ireland) or model railroading (US and Canada) is a hobby in which rail transport systems are modelled at a reduced scale.

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S scale

S scale (or S gauge) is a model railroad scale modeled at 1:64 scale, S scale track gauge (space between the rails) is.

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Slot car

A slot car (sometimes, slotcar or track car) is a powered miniature auto or other vehicle that is guided by a groove or slot in the track on which it runs.

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Sputnik 1

Sputnik 1 (or; "Satellite-1", or "PS-1", Простейший Спутник-1 or Prosteyshiy Sputnik-1, "Elementary Satellite 1") was the first artificial Earth satellite.

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Tie-in

A tie-in work is a work of fiction or other product based on a media property such as a film, video game, television series, board game, web site, role-playing game or literary property.

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Toy

A toy is an item that is used in play, especially one designed for such use.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Uranium

Uranium is a chemical element with symbol U and atomic number 92.

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Vacuum tube

In electronics, a vacuum tube, an electron tube, or just a tube (North America), or valve (Britain and some other regions) is a device that controls electric current between electrodes in an evacuated container.

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WCJ

WCJ was a radio station, located in New Haven, Connecticut, that was licensed to the A. C. Gilbert Company from September 29, 1921 to December 1, 1922.

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Westinghouse Electric Corporation

The Westinghouse Electric Corporation was an American manufacturing company.

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Westville, New Haven

Westville is a neighborhood of the city of New Haven, Connecticut.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._C._Gilbert_Company

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