Dangerous radioactive game on display at the museum Bashny.Net

The exhibition of the National Museum of Ulster in Northern Ireland появилась one of the most dangerous children's games - set for young physicists Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab. Toy will be available in 1951 on a wave of interest in the splitting of the atom, containing sample isotope uranium-238, the electroscope, spinthariscope, cloud chamber, a Geiger counter and a physics textbook. Then the fun feel young scientists should not cheap - $ 50, which roughly corresponds to today's $ 400.

Toy Lab sold in the United States until 1952 and manufactured by AC Gilbert Company. Included with the book it was «Prospecting for Uranium» - a solid edition, issued by the Geological Survey and the Commission on Nuclear Energy USA (in her writing also attended by Lieutenant-General Leslie Groves a >, military leader of the Manhattan Project). All with the help of a set of "Young Physicist" could hold 150 different experiments.



Interestingly, the fact that the radioactive isotope uranium-238 has been known to the creators, but its effects on human health, apparently was either not known, or it is not given due attention. In the instructions for replacing the radioactive materials (Pb-210, Ru-106, Zn-65) merely indicates that over time they lose their properties and to obtain new, required to use the services mail:



It is not clear why the sale of toys stopped, but if some talented child was able to find new sources of uranium, it would expect a reward from the government of $ 10 000.





Source: geektimes.ru/post/246080/