[time-nuts] OT: At the Flea

[d.seiter at comcast.net]

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" <albertson.chris at gmail.com> 
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <time-nuts at febo.com> 
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,  <aartmolsen at comcast.net> 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. 
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Chris Albertson 
Redondo Beach, California 

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