Have a Blast With At-Home Chemistry Sets
January 5, 2009
I love all of these vintage at-home chemistry sets from the 1940′s-1960′s that I found on Ebay. Even better is that some of the chemicals are eating away at the packaging.
Gilbert Chemistry Outfit
Chemicals by Gilbert
Chemcraft by Lionel
Chemcraft by Lionel
Another Gilbert Lab
More from Lionel's Chemcraft
Atomic Energy from Chemcraft
This Gilbert set has a microscope
Inside of the Gilbert microscope box
An older Gilbert set
An older Chemcraft set
Chemcraft chemicals
Check out this swell set-up
Warning label from Chemcraft
Chemcraft experiment manuals
Ad for chemistry and microscope sets
These old sets remind me of one of my favorite movies “The Young Poisoner’s Handbook”, a British film (1997) that is loosely based on the life of Graham Frederick; also know as the “Tea-cup killer”. “The Young Poisoner’s Handbook” is mad science made cool & explores the fine line between genius and madness. Graham Young, the main character, who is a brilliant chemist sets his sights on becoming the world’s greatest poisoner after several humiliations by his family. Check out the opening from the movie below.
Hi, Agent. I have a pretty groovy Lionel chemistry set that I’d like to sell. I can send photos. Are you interested?
Thanks.G
I’d like to buy an old chemistry set
Wow! I love this site and all those vintage photos. I grew up in the era where kids were allowed a more hand’s on approach to life. This went especially with our educational toys, like chemistry sets. Of course, half the time we would like to just mix stuff to see what would happen. However, there were times where actual learning took place. In my experience, we even formed a little science club and held meetings in the backyard shed. Thanks for the nice site.
i love to buy educational toys for my children, educational toys are very important for the development of motor skills~`,
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