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Gilbert Microscope Set, about 1938.
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Chemcraft was another line of chemistry sets aimed at boys from The Porter Chemical Company.
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Sets marketed to girls were pink and clearly set them up for careers as lab techs, not principal investigators.
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The Atomic Energy Lab from the Gilbert Company contained radioactive material to study nuclear physics.