Let's take a Trip back to the 60's and revisit all of our Favorite
Childhood Toys that are Way Too Dangerous for Todays Youth !!!!
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Chemistry Sets
You have to wonder what Nimrod came up with
the Awesome Idea of giving Unsupervised Kids Chemicals to play with But
Behold The Chemistry Set was Born !! I can hear my Mom saying
"Now Go play outside with your Chemistry set and try not to blow up anything
!!"
“When I was 9 years old, my parents gave
me a chemistry set. Within a week, I had decided to become a chemist and
never wavered from that choice,” Said Robert F. Curl, Jr. in his Nobel
Prize autobiography. Yes Curl Jr. was awarded the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry in 1996 for his discovery and for Not blowing up his parent's
house.. He was one of many Nobel Prize winners who credit the kits for
inspiring their career.
NEW !! for 1966 Now in a Metal Fire Proof Box !!!!
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The
Absolute Champion of "Learning Kits"
The Atomic Energy
Lab !!!
Now What Red Blooded American Kid Doesn't
Love Atomic Energy..
To this day I Can Not Believe
that My Parents Never got one for me.
Hey Who didn't want to build
a Small Scale "Atomic Device" or Reactor in his Basement ??
I know I Did
!!!
Retail Price in 1950 $49.95
Dubbed "the world's most dangerous toy"
It was discontinued after just
two years, with only about 5,000 units ever produced.. Apparently it didn't
sell well due to the price.. Not the fact that it contained Radioactive
Materials..
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Well
that Same Visionary that thought giving Kids Chemicals and Atomic Energy to
play with was an Awesome Idea came up with another Stellar Idea..
Hey
let's Make a Glass Blowing Set.. You Sir are a Real Man of Genius !!!
Complete with its own Blow Torch for making 2500 Degree Molten Glass..
What could possibly go Wrong ???
Well Kids Now you can blow your own glassware
for use in your Chemistry Lab..
Don't have a Pipet.. No Problem. Ampule No
Problem Make Your Own !!!
"Hey Mom I'm going down the
basement to play with my Glass Blowing Set... "
"Ok just don't get burned
badly or burn the house down"
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And
to round out the "Learning Kit" Field...
Another "Mostly Safe" Kit
The Erector Set..
Because how
are you going to deliver your
"Aerosol Chemical Compounds" or "Atomic
Devices" to your friends and enemy's?
Yes Kids Build a Dirigible
"Make your own Hydrogen!! With just Water and Electricity !!
Directions
included in your Chemistry Set"
Or maybe build a Working Steam Engine !!
Now
with Alcohol Fired High Pressure Steam !!
Kids get the Alcohol from your
parents liquor cabinet !!
How about a Motorized Kit !!
Now with 1/4 Hp Motor !!
Build a Centrifuge !! Build a Chemical
Mixer!!
Build a Reactor Cooling Pump!!
Build a Uranium Enrichment
Device
Build a Carnival Ride for your Sisters Dolls !!
The safety-conscious 1960s brought a quick
end to the chemistry set’s popularity. The Federal Hazardous Substances
Labeling Act of 1960 required labels for toxic and dangerous substances, and
chemistry set makers removed the alcohol lamps and acids from their kits.
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Well
So far we've played with Molten Glass, Toxic Chemicals and Atomic
Energy..
Gee What can we Play with Next you Ask??
Well how
about some Molten Hydrocarbons!!
Yes Kids how about your very own Vacuum
Forming Machine !!!
Make Cars, Boats, Monsters, Projectiles
and Composition C-4!!
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Lawn
Darts !!! Hey Why Not ?? Spectacular Idea !!
Let's
throw Sharp pointy Missiles at Each Other !!
What could go wrong here..
Maybe Impale your Friend or Enemy.. Hey Fun For Everyone..
No
Worries it's nothing a Good Dr. couldn't repair in the Emergency Room
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Cox Gas Power Aircraft !! What Every Jr. Aviator Dreams About
A Model Aircraft Perfect for Delivering your home made Chemistry Set and
Vacuum Molded Bombs !!
Honestly what could be more Awesome.. Now
here's the tricky part...
You fly a Gas powered plane around and around in a circle Going 50 Mph
controlled by two long Strings
That is Until you Black Out from Dizziness, Crash or
Hit Something..
Now with An Even Bigger Engine !!!
Now This baby will get your Plane to at least 80 Mph !!
Right up until the
time you Hit the Brick Wall, Your Friend or Some other Immovable Object
And
the Plane then disintegrates into Flaming Molten Plastic !!! Ask me how I
know..
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