As I recall, Gilbert also offered some sort of "Atomic energy lab set" in the early 50's; they'd probably have to call in the hazmat folks if one of those appeared at a flea market.
Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Albertson" <[email protected]> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 7:55:36 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] OT: At the Flea On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 5:48 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On CSPAN's Book TV yesterday the President of Dow Chemical stated that their > *starting* salary for newly graduated chemical engineers is now $120K. That > $10 chemistry set might have been a good investment. That kids father was either really smart or stupid. We don't know. He could of been a chemist and read the content and made an informed decision. For example, "no we are not heating Mercury in an open test tube, not in my house." Or he could have been ignorant and had a fear of "chemicals" not knowing what scary sounding things like "sodium chloride" is. If it was a 50's vintage set I'd not be surprised if there was something really dangerous in there. After all this was the period when they sold hot chassis TV sets and cars with no seat belts just to save a buck or two. -- ===== Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
