You've Come a Long Way, Baby

[MSFixR]

Found on eBay, a 1950s Gilbert Chemistry Experiment Lab set with two proud-looking boys conducting an experiment pictured on the box lid. Also from the 50s, a Gilbert Lab Technician Set for Girls. Pictured on the box lid are two young ladies one of whom is examining a specimen with a single ocular microscope. This was forty years after Marie Curie won the Nobel prize in Chemistry.

P.S. I had a Gilbert chemistry set when I was young. After setting my father’s workbench in fire, I knew what fate had in store for me.

C&EN, April 2, 2007

[Bill5461]

Didn't those two guys use that in Weird Science to create Kelly LeBrock? Actually I had one too, my dad was always afriad I would end up poisoning someone.

[MSFixR]

Originally Posted by Bill5461

Didn't those two guys use that in Weird Science to create Kelly LeBrock? Actually I had one too, my dad was always afriad I would end up poisoning someone.

Him?

During the 60s Gilbert came out with a Nuclear Science kit. Fortunately the Uranium included in the kit was of natural enrichment and therefore too low in neutron emission to create a chain reaction. That would have been exciting!

[MissyO]

You both scare me .