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Chemistry set Kickstarter looks to recapture the wonder of days gone by
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| Nov 14, 2013
| Graham Templeton
Posted on 11/23/2013 8:47:19 AM PST by AdmSmith
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To: Ray76
I think I had the erector set. Is ‘76 your model year?
To: AdmSmith
we must NOT ALLOW the great would be evil alchemist access.....under any circumstances
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posted on
11/23/2013 9:29:49 AM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
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To: Ray76; camle; ToastedHead
Between 1909 and 1964, the Gilbert Company was the premiere producer of learning toys in the world. Nowadays toys are not hands-on they are in the computer. Although it is fun as well, but it does not give the feeling for the stuff that real toys give.
Sooner or later someone will revive the toys from the Gilbert Company. In the meantime check out the museum
http://www.eliwhitney.org/museum/gilbert-project
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posted on
11/23/2013 9:33:38 AM PST
by
AdmSmith
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To: AdmSmith
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posted on
11/23/2013 9:37:17 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
To: AdmSmith
These are the exact ones I remember, which appear to be from the 30s (lol@my parents):
To: AdmSmith
I saw the basic topic, was interested, and wanted to find out the price of the set.
I was moving fast, and skimming text, and clicking on things to find out the price.
I saw a statement that the set was high quality and that "being cheap" was not an important goal. Still, I didn't see the cost listed.
Finally, I got to a web page with a dollar amount -- $77,000!!!
After I picked myself off the ground I finally realized that this was a kickstart campaign, to get seed money, to start a business, so that eventually somesort of chemistry set could be put on the market at some unspecified time in the future.
To: AdmSmith
My adolescent chemistry experiments started with saltpeter and sugar, then advanced to saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal.
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posted on
11/23/2013 9:40:21 AM PST
by
Rebelbase
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To: ToastedHead
Erector sets where cool though in my house there was Lincoln-Log prerequisite before getting one.
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posted on
11/23/2013 9:43:04 AM PST
by
Rebelbase
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To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
11/23/2013 9:47:27 AM PST
by
AdmSmith
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To: AdmSmith
To change topics a little bit, can anyone recommend a good current chemistry set for a homeschooled 15-year-old? I’d like it to accommodate the experiments likely to be found in a standard high-school chemistry textbook.
To: Rebelbase
I did the same, and my parents were afraid that something would happen. Sure it did, the kitchen ceiling got a new color, after that I tested everything outside.
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posted on
11/23/2013 9:52:01 AM PST
by
AdmSmith
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To: Rebelbase
My erector set was made out of some painful metal that made my hands stinky. My parents are now trying to pawn it all off on MY kids. They just gave my boy this 25 ton dump truck of death that I fall over and scrape my leg on every day.
To: centurion316
Everything was there, if you knew where to look!
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posted on
11/23/2013 9:58:08 AM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: AdmSmith
Do you happen to know if the $225 glassware set includes the chemicals?
To: AdmSmith
I mixed up a five lb. bag of saltpeter and sugar and was burning small piles of it in the backyard. The bag was sitting too close and a spark jumped and ignited the whole thing into a mini Mt. Vesuvius.
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posted on
11/23/2013 9:59:52 AM PST
by
Rebelbase
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To: AdmSmith
The losses of
- A.C. Gilbert Co.
and
- Heathkit
and
- Scientific American's "The Amateur Scientist" feature
-- inflicted dire damage on America's ability to identify and nurture young, inventive scientists and engineers-to-be.
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posted on
11/23/2013 10:03:15 AM PST
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
To: ToastedHead
I presume that is the case.
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posted on
11/23/2013 10:04:19 AM PST
by
AdmSmith
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To: TXnMA
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posted on
11/23/2013 10:10:04 AM PST
by
AdmSmith
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To: centurion316
We did it.
Made black powder, and were working toward Nitroglycerin when we figured out some of the acids we needed we not available to teenagers (legally).
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posted on
11/23/2013 10:13:51 AM PST
by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: AdmSmith
That predates me by a bit. :)
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posted on
11/23/2013 10:17:25 AM PST
by
EEGator
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