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  1. Re: Hmm by gzuckier · · Score: 1 · on Merry Christmas - Be an Erector Engineer!

    It was, you can buy it: http://hms-beagle.com/heirloom...

    geez; do they offer financial aid? "i'd like to take out a mortgage to buy my kid a chemistry set, please"

  2. Re: Hmm by rfengr · · Score: 1 · on Merry Christmas - Be an Erector Engineer!

    It was, you can buy it: http://hms-beagle.com/heirloom...

  3. Heirloom Chemistry Set by steveha · · Score: 3, Informative · on 1950s Toy That Included Actual Uranium Ore Goes On Display At Museum

    If you want a really awesome chemistry set, you can buy one:

    http://hms-beagle.com/heirloom-chemistry-set/

    This was a KickStarter project. He was trying to raise $30K and he raised almost five times that much.

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1742632993/heirloom-chemistry-set

    If you can't afford the full set, contact the store; the web page says they can sell any subset of the kit.

    Hmm, if I ever make it to Kansas City I will try to go check out the H.M.S. Beagle science store.

  4. The geek gives up too easily. by westlake · · Score: 1 · on How To Change U.S. Laws To Promote Robotics

    really crazy, impossible things like selling an educational chemistry set.

    You mean like this successful Kickstarter project launched by the sconce store H.M.S. Beagle?

    Heirloom Chemistry Set

  5. Not so impossible at all. by westlake · · Score: 1 · on Citizen Science: Who Makes the Rules?

    Thanks to the war on drugs, the war on terror, the war on fireworks, the war on common sense and various other wars, its becoming harder and harder for amateurs who want to do chemistry in their own home/shed/backyard.
    Chemical suppliers wont sell to amateurs and hobbyists.

    The A C Gilbert Heirloom Chemistry Set project was fully funded three days ago. ($149,000)

    H.M.S. Beagle has about 600 chemicals for sale online. H.M.S. Beagle Publications: Materials Safety Data Sheets

    United Nuclear is a rich resource for the amateur scientist. Radioactive Isotopes. Chemistry Experiments

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    Chemistry Supply Websites

  6. Not so impossible at all. by westlake · · Score: 1 · on Citizen Science: Who Makes the Rules?

    Thanks to the war on drugs, the war on terror, the war on fireworks, the war on common sense and various other wars, its becoming harder and harder for amateurs who want to do chemistry in their own home/shed/backyard.
    Chemical suppliers wont sell to amateurs and hobbyists.

    The A C Gilbert Heirloom Chemistry Set project was fully funded three days ago. ($149,000)

    H.M.S. Beagle has about 600 chemicals for sale online. H.M.S. Beagle Publications: Materials Safety Data Sheets

    United Nuclear is a rich resource for the amateur scientist. Radioactive Isotopes. Chemistry Experiments

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    Chemistry Supply Websites

  7. An A C Gilbert Chemistry Kickstarter Project by westlake · · Score: 5, Informative · on Nobody Builds Reactors For Fun Anymore

    Chemistry sets were effectively banned a long time ago as a side effect of the war on drugs.

    This fully funded Kickstarter project is an authentic recreation of an A C Gilbert chemistry set from the 1920s to 1940s.

    Chemical List Arranged in the order originally published by the A.C. Gilbert Company along with their item number and the 1936 pricing)

    Heirloom Chemistry Set