blog.makezine.com - 12/4/2008
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Photography courtesy of Chemical Heritage Foundation (top left, bottom right); by Dustin Fenstermacher (top right, bottom left). Why old chemistry sets were better — and how to make your own today by Keith Hammond.
It's true: chemistry sets today don’t measure up to the classic ...
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How To Build Your Own Chemistry Set [Chemistry]
Gizmodo —
... and a plastic volcano, old sets were filled with good stuff, like explosive nitrates and deadly cyanide compounds. MAKE has a tutorial, or series of tutorials even, on how to build your own ballsy chemistry set. For instance, pick up Sodium hydroxide that's packaged as crystal drain cleaner. Put the corrosive substance on metal and you get flammable hydrogen gas! So promise to be good and wear goggles, then hit the link. It could make for a great DIY Christmas gift. [MAKE]
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Making yourself glow in the dark - the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy lab
CrunchGear —
... Despite being billed as Exciting! and Safe! I have my doubts. It’s amazing how misunderstood radiation was, and sometimes I find it remarkable that kids didn’t either become sterile, or blow themselves up. ...
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In 1962 SEARS made chemistry sets...
blog.makezine.com 12/29/2008 —
I spotted this on eBay, a 1962 chemistry set from SEARS .
And here's another from the 1950s, The Gilbert Experimental Lab . Love the packaging...
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A 1962 Sears brand chemistry set... you know, for kids
gadgets.boingboing.net 12/29/2008 —
MAKE spotted this fantastic 1962 era chemistry set from Sears up on eBay. This was apparently marketed to Kennedy-era I.D.ers as well as science minded tots: the first bullet point mentions both "exciting chemistry and magic experiments."
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