{"id":848,"date":"2009-03-24T16:28:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T21:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/?p=848"},"modified":"2009-03-24T21:18:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T02:18:15","slug":"the-atomic-energy-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/the-atomic-energy-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"The Atomic Energy Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, they just don&#8217;t make science kits like they did 50 years ago.  This one came with radioactive sources.  It was $50.00 at the time (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanmemorabilia.com\/Auction_Item.asp?Auction_ID=31568\">can fetch more than $7000.00<\/a> if you can find one now):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 &#8220;Prospecting for Uranium.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orau.org\/ptp\/collection\/atomictoys\/GilbertU238Lab.htm\">Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab (1950-1951)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gilbertatomicopentrimmed.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[848]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gilbertatomicopentrimmed_500.jpg\" alt=\"gilbertatomicopentrimmed_500\" title=\"gilbertatomicopentrimmed_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"489\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-858\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, they just don&#8217;t make science kits like they did 50 years ago. This one came with radioactive sources. It was $50.00 at the time (and can fetch more than $7000.00 if you can find one now): The set came with four types of uranium ore, a beta-alpha source (Pb-210), a pure beta source (Ru-106), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}