A few months ago I wrote an artiÂcle on the Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab and now you can buy one for your very own! SellÂing at the time of this writÂing for just over $1700, this 1949 “toy” cost today’s equivÂaÂlent of $400 and includes “a U-239 Geiger counter, ElecÂtroÂscope, Spinthariscope, WilÂson Cloud ChamÂber, nuclear spheres model, a book on prospecting […]
ConÂtinÂuÂing my impromptu series on atomic releated artiÂcles, 93 year old TsuÂtomu YamÂaguchi has become the first perÂson cerÂtiÂfied to have surÂvived both atomic bombÂings on Japan. YamÂaguchi was in Hiroshima on a busiÂness trip on Aug. 6, 1945, when a U.S. B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the city. He sufÂfered seriÂous burns to […]
When I was a kid we had lawn darts (giant weighted spears that you would throw in the air and try to avoid getÂting impaled) and Creepy Crawler (an oven designed for makÂing litÂtle toy monÂsters out of molten plasÂtic) and my parÂents thought they might be danÂgerÂous but nothÂing beats the Gilbert U-238 Atomic […]