So most of our schools had some sort of teaching aids for certain subjects. I’m sure we all remember when all the weird displays were pulled out for health class to show us how many different ways we could laugh at cheap plastic internal organ models. And that’s cool and all, but how about a goddamn full atomic energy lab…complete with fucking URANIUM ORE:

The set came with four types of uranium ore, a beta-alpha source (Pb-210), a pure beta source (Ru-106), a gamma source (Zn-65?), a spinthariscope, a cloud chamber with its own short-lived alpha source (Po-210), an electroscope, a geiger counter, a manual, a comic book (Dagwood Splits the Atom) and a government manual “Prospecting for Uranium.”

That is INSANE. Imagine sitting in school, and the teacher whips this thing out to every kid in class. I don’t know how schools were when this was introduced, but I wouldn’t trust 99% of my classmates with goddamn uranium ore. Hell, I wouldn’t trust myself with it. Also the fact that the box makes this look like a kid’s toy is just so fucked up yet totally awesome.

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