Accession No
6616.17
Brief Description
‘Things of Science’ educational kit (Iron, no. 4), by Advisory Centre for Education,English, c. 1960s
Origin
Cambridge, England
Maker
Advisory Centre for Education
Class
demonstration; games; metallurgy
Earliest Date
1963
Latest Date
1966
Inscription Date
Material
Paper (card, paper); metal (iron, other); glass; cork; plastic; copper and iron sulphate
Dimensions
152mm (width) x 114mm (height) x 27mm (depth)
Special Collection
Provenance
Purchased from www.eBay.co.uk on or before 18/12/2015.
Inscription
Description Notes
‘Things of Science’ educational kit (Iron, no. 4), by Advisory Centre for Education,English, c. 1960s.
Things of science kit, no. 4, ‘Iron’.
Box contains 2 corked specimen tubes, one containing iron nails and blue litmus paper and another containing silica gel (supposedly, although these are pink when sheet indicates they should be blue - could be due to age), 1 Pyrex glass tube, 5 specimens of haematite (in compartment covered with sellotape), fine iron powder in white box, green vitriol (iron sulphate), blue vitriol (copper sulphate), flowers of sulphur - all contained within a plastic tray in which there are three indents to stand the test tubes in. The instructions tell the owner the history of iron and some experiments to be conducted with the contents of the box.
In good condition, is leaking powder and kept in a bag. Complete. Be aware copper sulphate can be poisonous.
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Description
These Things of Science kits, created by Advisory Centre for Education in the 1960s, would have been sent out to young audiences in the U.K. and enabled the user to practice science experiments relating to the contents of the box. Subjects were broad and covered topics such as simple machines, osmosis and shells as well as road safety. The kits were inspired by their U.S. counterparts, created by Science Service from the 1940s onwards. Originally, Advisory Centre for Education purchased the U.S. kits and relabelled them, but although these kits contain the same materials as the U.S. kits, they are completely repackaged.
08/09/2016
Created by: Rosanna Evans on 08/09/2016
FM:47159
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