Which is older, Erector Set or Tinkertoy?

leith90

The Erector set is older, by a year. http://skateboard.about.com/od/boardmaintenance/ss/ChoosingSkBoard_3.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinkertoy Jul 10 10, 6:10 PM

Zbeckabee

Patented in 1913, the Erector Set was invented by A.C. Gilbert in 1911, and was manufactured by the A. C. Gilbert Company at the Erector Square factory in New Haven, Connecticut, from 1913 until its bankruptcy in 1967. The Gabriel company of Lancaster, Pennsylvania bought the Erector name, and continued to make nearly-identical sets into the 1970s and 1980s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erector_set The Tinkertoy Construction Set was created in 1914—one year after the A. C. Gilbert Company's Erector Set—by Charles H. Pajeau and Robert Pettit in Evanston, Illinois. Pajeau, a stonemason, designed the toy after seeing children play with pencils and empty spools of thread. He and Pettit set out to market a toy that would allow and inspire children to use their imaginations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinkertoy Jul 10 10, 10:40 PM