[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab

[Carl Lazarus]

I too had a glow-in-the-dark watch and recall at least one time when a shoe store used a fluoroscope on me.  So far, I haven’t experienced any ill effects.

 

I also purchased some asbestos as a young teenager, that I cut to line a wooden box in which I had created an electric arc.  So far, I’ve survived that, too.  I also did home chemistry experiments with sulfuric acid I purchased.

 

Kids are much more protected today, sometimes too much, but I wouldn’t go back to the old days.

 

-- Carl

 

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As a kid I had a watch that glowed in the dark with radium on the dial

Then when I went in for shoes I used a fluoroscope  https://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/shoefittingfluor/shoe.htm

These started being banned in 1957

 

I think I had the uranium kit

 

 

John Rudy

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Kids could experiment with uranium back in the 1950's:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/space-age/fun-and-uranium-for-the-whole-family-in-this-1950s-science-kit

There is no more fun today due to toy safety concerns.

-- Mitch

 

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