* Erector Set

It seemed that Soarin ' wouldn't become a reality until engineer Mark Sumner developed a different idea for the ride vehicles, using an Erector Set and string to create a working model.

It is best known for introducing the Erector Set ( a construction toy similar to Meccano in the rest of the world ) to the marketplace.

Although A. C. Gilbert has not existed as a company for several decades, Gabriel continued to use the brand name on its Erector Set and microscope products, a practice that subsequent owners of the Erector brand have continued.

Circa 1913, his A. C. Gilbert Company also became the makers of Erector Set metal construction toys, which were ' inspired ' by the English-made Meccano sets of which it was a U. S. distributor.

Print advertisement for Erector Set circa 1922

Erector Set is the trade name of a metallic toy construction set originally patented and manufactured by the AC Gilbert Company of New Haven, CT. that is popular in the United States.

Patented in 1913, The Erector Set was invented by AC 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 Erector Set is believed by many to have been the subject of the first national advertising campaign in America for a toy.

The Erector Set was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong in Rochester, New York, in 1998.

Scores, perhaps hundreds, of different Erector Set kits have been made over the decades, most famously the " No. 12½ " deluxe kit that came with blueprints for the " Mysterious Walking Giant " robot.

In 1949, an Erector Set was used to build the precursor to the modern artificial heart by Drs.

The " Soarin '" attraction at Disneyland Resort's Disney California Adventure in Anaheim, California and Walt Disney World's Epcot near Orlando, Florida was designed with an Erector Set.

It 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.

Finished assemblies also lacked the robust durability of its principal competition at the time, the Erector Set.

* Alfred Carlton Gilbert ( graduated in 1902 from the Tualatin Academy ) – Olympian and inventor of the Erector Set

" In a 1988 Los Angeles Times article, the review noted that " Wilson and Maddock have improved considerably here .... Their construction is more deft, their dialogue is better, and they make Number Five come more alive ..." Rita Kempley of the Washington Post scored the film 6 / 10 saying, "... Kenneth Johnson pulls heartstrings with the best of them — or the worst, if you hate that sort of thing ... if you're a kid, or an adult with an Erector Set, you might just enjoy this summer-weight caper.

They first task Rone with rounding up three other members of the group: Janis ( Nigel Green ), a drug dealer and panderer, " The Warlock " ( George Sanders ), a culturally sophisticated homosexual, and " The Erector Set " ( Niall MacGinnis ), a highly skilled thief and burglar.

The original toy was of the construction type, similar to the Erector Set and K ’ Nex, that included motors, wheels, and pincers.

However, in 1929, it sold its New Jersey factory to the A. C. Gilbert Company, whose similar Erector Set toy was popular in the United States, and Meccano's trains and construction sets disappeared from the U. S. market by 1930.

* 4th row: First Crossword puzzle ; Jack Dempsey ; Erector Set ; Child Labor Reform

** Panels of varying sizes and shapes are connected by pins or screws perpendicular to the panels, which are good for building linkages such as an Erector Set, Meccano, Merkur, Steel Tec, Lego Technic, Trix, FAC-System and Überstix

* M983 with 30 KW generator and a crane mounted behind the cab towed the MGM-31 Pershing Erector Laucher in CONUS ( a MAN tractor was used in West Germany ).

It was modelled after the original 1893 wheel built by George Ferris at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago and was shipped to the United States to promote " Erector Meccano " after Meccano S. A. had bought out the " Erector " trade name and began selling Meccano sets in the U. S. A.

Gilbert invented Erector in 1911, inspired by railroad girders, and the construction toy was introduced two years later.

Erector was sold to Gabriel Industries and moved production from Erector Square in New Haven, Connecticut, to Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

In June 1959 the Corporal Guided Missile on Launch Pad was issued, which was later featured coupled to a mobile transporter as Corporal Erector Vehicle and Missile ( 1113 ) released in October 1959.

One day, an Imagineer found an Erector set in his attic, and with this old childhood toy, he was able to envision and design a ride vehicle that would effectively simulate hang gliding.

Various tests are performed, and then the vehicle is rolled horizontally to the pad, where the Fixed Pad Erector ( FPE ) is used to raise the vehicle to the vertical position, inside the MST.

The radar tower is a Grade II listed structure and is now used by the RAF Aerial Erector School for selection tests for possible recruits.

Currently sold " Erector Sets " are actually Meccano sets manufactured by Meccano S. N.

Current " Erector " sets are actually Meccano sets manufactured by Meccano S. N.

In the United States, since January 2008, these Erector sets have been distributed by Schylling Toys.

Erector pili muscles are significant in animals.

As it is currently configured, the launch site features structures similar to Boeing's Delta IV SLC-37 launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, with a Fixed Umbilical Tower, Mobile Service Tower, Fixed Pad Erector, Launch Control Center and Operations Building, and a Horizontal Integration Facility.

As a stand-alone hobby, building models are probably most popular among enthusiasts of construction toys such as Erector, Lego and K ' nex.

In the 1970s, Claude Shannon constructed a bounce-juggling machine from an Erector set.

OCS was eventually followed by the modestly improved Enhanced Chip Set ( ECS ) in 1990 and finally by the partly 32-bit Advanced Graphics Architecture ( AGA ) in 1992.

Indeed, when the Myth of Osiris and Isis emerged, it was said that when Osiris had been killed by Set, Osiris ' organs were given to Anubis as a gift.

Set in the reign of Jeroboam II ( 786-746 BC ), it was probably written in the post-exilic period, sometime between the late fifth to early fourth century BC.

A proposal was posted by Michael Everson for the Blissymbolics script to be included in the Universal Character Set ( UCS ) and encoded for use with the ISO / IEC 10646 and Unicode standards.

Set on an oceanliner, it was to star Marlon Brando as an American ambassador, and Sophia Loren as a beautiful stowaway found in his cabin.

The second was the Super Action Controller Set, resembling a pair of boxing gloves each with joystick and numeric keypad on top and a series of buttons along the grip.

Dualism was first seen implicitly in Egyptian Religious beliefs by the contrast of the Gods Set ( disorder, death ) and Osiris ( order, life ).

Subsequent to the specification of the original 15 elements, an ongoing process to develop exemplary terms extending or refining the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set ( DCMES ) was begun.

In the Action Set configuration of the NES in the late 1980s, Duck Hunt was included with Super Mario Bros ..

A Power Set was also available, which included the Action Set, the Power Pad and a 3-in-1 cartridge that included Duck Hunt, World Class Track Meet and Super Mario Bros.

Composer John Farmer, who was in Oxford's service at the time, dedicated The First Set of Divers & Sundry Ways of Two Parts in One to him in 1591, noting in the dedication his patron's love of music.

Set in Paris in 1828, it was voted Best French Film of the Century in a poll of 600 French critics and professionals in the late 1990s.

General responsibilities include arriving first at the location to allow the Set Dressers into the set for preparation ; maintaining the cleanliness of the location areas during filming ; fielding complaints from neighbors ; and ultimately, at the end of the filming, making sure it seems as though the film crew was never there.

His work and essays popularising the new understanding of radioactivity was the main inspiration for H. G. Wells's The World Set Free ( 1914 ), which features atomic bombs dropped from biplanes in a war set many years in the future.

The Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set, a variation of the original D & D geared towards younger players and edited by J. Eric Holmes, was released in 1977.

There was also a boxed set called variously The Factory Set and One With Everything which contained one of each card from the main set of the limited edition, multiples of the Illuminati cards, and a few cards previously only available in magazines.

" That was three different songs ... yet they were brought together to sound like one, which was fantastic ," lead guitarist John Echols said of " You Set The Scene " in the liner notes by Andrew Sandoval for the " Collector's Edition " of " Forever Changes " that was released by Rhino Records in 2008.

The alternate mix of " Forever Changes " included in the second disc features a proto-rap by Lee on a slightly longer version of the album closer " You Set The Scene " that was edited out of the final version that was released commercially.

Led Zeppelin Boxed Set 2 was released in 1993 ; the two box sets together containing all known studio recordings, as well as some rare live tracks.

At the same time the success of Do Not Adjust Your Set had led Palin, Jones, Idle and Gilliam to be offered their own series and, while it was still in production, Palin agreed to Cleese's proposal and brought along Idle, Jones and Gilliam.

NeXT's long-term aim was to migrate to the RISC ( Reduced Instruction Set Computing ) architecture, a processor design strategy intended to increase performance.