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Science kits these days don’t contain many items that you couldn’t already find around the house: salt, balloons, magnets and a few odds and ends. But kids who were lucky enough to have wealthy parents in the early 1950s had the unprecedented chance to play with uranium ore in this very cool science kit. The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab was only sold from 1951 to 1952, and at the time its $50 price tag was too steep for many families. The kit came with four different types of uranium ore, a geiger counter, a miniature cloud chamber, an electroscope, a spinthariscope and an educational comic book called “Learn How Dagwood Splits the Atom!” Kids could perform their own experiments at home to discover the secrets of radioactive materials and learn how they made “clean, safe” atomic energy.
Originally posted by Kr0nZ
Interesting note: they also sell death ray's, which no Evil Mad Scientist should be without. You can see people testing them out on youtube.
Originally posted by TheSparrowSings
Originally posted by Kr0nZ
Interesting note: they also sell death ray's, which no Evil Mad Scientist should be without. You can see people testing them out on youtube.
Why buy a deathray when you can make your own with mirrors and an old satellite dish.
Originally posted by freebornman
reply to post by Gu1tarJohn
Hehe good find, I haven't seen those before. I do have a couple of 'science for boys' type books of experiments from the 1940's somewhere, from memory there are instructions for preparing chloroform, and some experiments with white phosphorous, and the thermit reaction is in there too. My favourite though, was 'why does water roll off a duck's back?'. In brackets underneath the title it said "you do NOT need a duck for this experiment". Well it made me chuckle anyway.
Originally posted by Auricom
Boy, times have changed!
Originally posted by bluemooone2
Apparently the child could start with this .........
and then work his way up to this kit here.
edit on 22-1-2013 by bluemooone2 because: (no reason given)