American Model Builder 1914
American Model Builder is a 1914 trade catalogue and instruction manual from the American Mechanical Toy Company, presenting metal construction-set toys for young builders. The four line drawings show perforated-strip models built from flat girders, bolts and pulleys, including a tower frame, a cantilever crane, a trestle-like structure and a pulley-driven gear mechanism. A designer might take from them the modular grid of slotted strips and the clean, schematic line style of early mechanical toy instruction drawings.
