Gilbert Erector set part number GN airplane swivel

I have a vague memory of having read somewhere that Gilbert also sold an atomic/radioactivity learning set, that included such fun things as a sample of radium. Or was that somebody else???

Anyway, it was definitely NOT the kind of thing that you could sell to kids today.
 
I have a vague memory of having read somewhere that Gilbert also sold an atomic/radioactivity learning set, that included such fun things as a sample of radium.
Indeed they did, I had it when I was a kid. It was a hand me down but had most of the parts including the Uranium ore, which I still have someplace...
 
Gilbert sold an Atomic Energy Lab in 1950 and 1951 for around $50. Picture of one is below. It came with a Gieger counter and included some very low level radioactive sources. The one in the picture sold for $3500 . . .

Bruce

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Thanks for finding this. Wowsers ... a cloud chamber and everything! Of course, fifty 1950 dollars was quite a pretty penny.
 
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