Accession No

6616.4

Brief Description

‘Things of Science’ educational kit (Cotton, #270), by Science Service and repackaged by Advisory Centre for Education, English, c. 1963

Origin

Cambridge, England

Maker

Advisory Centre for Education

Class

demonstration; games

Earliest Date

Latest Date

Inscription Date

(c)

Material

Paper (card, paper); metal; cloth (cotton); natural fibre (cotton)

Dimensions

140mm (width) x 88mm (depth) x 27mm (height)

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased from www.eBay.co.uk on or before 18/12/2015.

Inscription

Description Notes

‘Things of Science’ educational kit (Cotton, #270), by Science Service and repackaged by Advisory Centre for Education, English, c. 1963.

Cotton, unit no. 270, issued April 1963

Box includes raw cotton, clean cotton lint, card silver, roving, yarn, print cloth, wash-wear fabric, instruction leaflet, a page delineating the essential steps of cotton textile processing and a page from ACE translating American English terms from the booklet. The instruction leaflet educates the owner on cotton history and its uses, it also includes a series of 17 experiments one can do with the contents of the science kit.

Box and contents made by Science Service, and box has since had the translation page included and been relabelled by ACE.

Condition: Good condition, complete.

References

Events

Description
These c.1960s Things of Science kits were purchased in bulk by the Advisory Centre for Education here in Cambridge from U.S.A. company Science Service, whose science kits aimed to popularise science and spread scientific knowledge. These kits have has new labels applied and include a page that offered translations for American words that British children may have been unfamiliar with. Over time, the Advisory Centre of Education began to completely redesign the American kits, only using the same materials but changing the packaging and instructions.
07/09/2016
Created by: Rosanna Evans on 07/09/2016

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