Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory: Difference between revisions

Unlike A.C. Gilbert's chemistry sets, the Atomic Energy Lab was never popular and was soon taken off the shelves.<ref name="Marsh"/><ref name="Berry-Drago"/> Fewer than 5,000 kits were sold, and the product was only offered in 1950 and 1951.<ref name="WatsonBook">{{cite book|last1=Watson|first1=Bruce|title=The man who changed how boys and toys were made|date=2002|publisher=Viking|location=New York.|isbn=978-0670031344|pages=[https://archive.org/details/manwhochangedhow00wats/page/179 179–181]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/manwhochangedhow00wats/page/179}}</ref><ref name="Marsh"/> Gilbert believed the Atomic Energy Lab was commercially unsuccessful because the lab was more appropriate for those who had some educational background rather than the younger crowd that the A.C. Gilbert Company's younger typical aimedtarget foraudience.<ref name="Paradise"/>{{rp|334}} [[Columbia University]] purchased five of these sets for their physics lab.<ref name="WatsonBook" /><ref name="Paradise" />{{rp|333-334}}