In the 50s, Gilbert actually sold a U-238 Chemistry Set that allowed your kid to experiment with radioactive isotopes. Irradiate your friends! Poison yourself and the environment! Fun for all! Actually, the kit was designed to encourage kids to take the geiger counter out to find uranium. By dad was a forest ranger in the 50s, and he was issued a geiger counter by the government with the hopes that rangers might locate uranium deposits in the process of their work. Don’t have it any more, it took a special battery that was never available for purchase by the public…
In the 50s, Gilbert actually sold a U-238 Chemistry Set that allowed your kid to experiment with radioactive isotopes. Irradiate your friends! Poison yourself and the environment! Fun for all! Actually, the kit was designed to encourage kids to take the geiger counter out to find uranium. By dad was a forest ranger in the 50s, and he was issued a geiger counter by the government with the hopes that rangers might locate uranium deposits in the process of their work. Don’t have it any more, it took a special battery that was never available for purchase by the public…