They do n’t make toys like this any longer : why have an E - Z Bake Oven when I can have a U-238 Atomic Energy Lab and create my own Manhattan project in the backyard ? ( BAM ! Emeril tell it . )
The Atomic Energy Lab set was only uncommitted from 1951 to 1952 and sell for a walloping $ 50 ( that ’s without ostentatiousness ) .
The set came with four type of atomic number 92 ore , a beta - alpha germ ( Pb-210 ) , a pure beta source ( Ru-106 ) , a da Gamma source ( Zn-65 ? ) , a spinthariscope , a cloud chamber with its own shortly - live alpha source ( Po-210 ) , an electroscope , a Hans Geiger counter , a manual , a comic leger ( Dagwood Splits the Atom ) and a government manual “ Prospecting for Uranium . ”
Today , a solidification of one of these could go for over $ 5,000 due to the special amount that was produce . Maybe the curing was make in special quantities because buy the farm from radiation therapy at the years of eight was n’t so fun either . [ Oak Ridge Associated UniversitiesviaBoing Boing ]
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