..in the years 1950-1951, the A. C. Gilbert Company distributed the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, a toy kit allowing kids to make nuclear reactions at home using actual radioactive material. It was taken off the shelves in 1951.
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here’s an interesting story from about 30 years ago that is somewhat related to this. kid built a functional breeder reactor in his parent’s backyard using off-the-shelf materials:
https://interestingengineering.com/culture/david-hahn-the-nuclear-boy-scout
I was always working on that rig with a candy cigarette dangling from my mouth.
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I had not remembered it until see the Atomic Energy Kit on TAE but I actually had this toy in the 50’s
Hey, it’s on Ebay, only US $999.00 plus US $19.13 for Standard Shipping
Just like New!
The future as we imagined it when we had those toys….
That future still included real girls and real boys.
not according to Nikola Tesla …look it up.
Nuclear Power – unlimited quantity… and too cheap to meter!
Electricity should be harnessed for the greater good….10 out of 9 corporations will agree.
Instead we get…
The “future” was stolen from us by the elite. Its been downhill ever since.
Funny how many of these toys were yanked when a few kids got injured. Lawn darts and the Water Snake etc… And yet today when large numbers of people dying from clots shots these same asswipes still push injecting poisons. I wonder what tide pods taste like.
Wham-O obviously did not buy enough politicians or their products would have been protected.
I forgot about Wham-O, what a great name.
Click Clacks…
Lawn darts with the heavy pointed metal tips worked great and actually stuck in the ground. The rounded bowl tips for safety sucked and ruined lawn darts. Yet you can still throw a heavy metal horse shoe down range and no one is worried about that.
Back in the ’60s had a chemistry set, microscope, Erector® Set, etc. Lotsa fun, also model airplanes.
Ever get an Edmund Scientific Catalog? Had all kinds of telescope kits and electronic stuff you had to put together.
Ever get to go to Edmund Scientific? That was a cool trip as a kid!
No, where was it located? Sure it was very cool, did order a reflector telescope kit that was like the only one I’ve ever even looked through.
Was racking my brain about some store in the first mall ever went to in Raleigh back in sixties that had kits for stereo receivers and other things where one would actually have to solder the components. Got and built a metal detector that actually worked.
No, but mailed a letter at 8 to DeVry when we lived in Chigargo. We moved back home to Jackson, MS two yrs. later. Three yrs. after that, received correspondence from them.
Tried Mech Engr. at Starkville. UPOH. Left it. Honors Finance there, 3.87 MBA Bama.
First job OMG, driving a heating oil deliery truck for a-hole father in law. Loved and learned a lot.
47 yrs. later it’s ok. Live where I always wanted to with the sorta woman of my dreams. She was until 2 jabs.
I had a stick and only a few people to beat with it.
Anything less than 20 people to beat it with and you were disadvantaged
Man you were poor.
You know what a cracker calls a boomerang that doesn’t come back when they throw it?
A stick.
Maybe you should have made a drum and beat that …
I remember playing Mumblety-peg with our pocket knifes where you have to throw and stick your knife in the ground. Imagine today if a couple of kid started throwing knives, they would be called terrorist, the cops called, they would be arrested and taken from the parents for allowing their kids dangerous weapons!
Build any Heath kits?
the title brought to mind that “trunk-or-treat” bs they run nowadays in order to sanitize (read: brainwash/control/ruin – pick one) society even further.
only when made wiff bananas?
No … only when made wiff watermelon …
Oops
In the 80s we had 3 wheeled ATCs, 2 stroke dirt bikes, BB guns, M80s, and Hustler magazines.