An athlete and a toy makerSourced
The pole-vault champion also developed a construction toy
A. C. Gilbert shared the pole-vault gold medal with Edward Cook at the 1908 Olympics. In 1913 he developed the Erector Set, inspired by steel construction girders. The same person appears in the histories of athletic competition and construction toys.
His achievements reached from the vault to the toy box.
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