[2] Unlike his brothers who remained primarily associated with their father's toy business in New York City, Jesse started his own company in Brooklyn.

"[4] Jesse designed a tool to drill the ten evenly spaced holes in carriage wheels at the same time when he was only eleven years old.

[1] The popularity of these larger toy horses affected adults also as author Nathaniel P. Willis wrote about it in Health and Happiness on Horseback.

Charles M. Crandall's design of tongue and groove interlocking blocks was used to construct an enormous palace exhibited in the 1876 International Centennial Exposition held in Philadelphia.

[14] In 1880 the Crandall family provided an exhibit of an Egyptian obelisk weighing over 200 tons in New York's Central Park which was widely popular.

One of Jesse's involved use of a newly designed treadle and earned a gold medal at the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition; Crandall's Sandometer or "The beach brought to your home" in 1879 was a rather novel idea.

[19] He also invented an invalid chair,[20] which President Grover Cleveland's daughter was reported to use,[1] One puzzle was a result of getting two painter's hooks entangled and the difficulty in getting them separated.