THE MAN WHO CHANGED HOW BOYS AND TOYS WERE MADE By Bruce Watson Viking. 216 pp. $24.95 The title of Bruce Watson's strange little biography of Alfred C. Gilbert may seem hyperbolic, but it is entirely ...
Introduced nearly a century ago, the Erector set was the new toy for a new age. Initially packed in sturdy red wooden boxes, Erector sets included tools, equipment (screws, nuts and bolts and steel ...