Remember, that was $49.50 in 1951 dollars. That's $372 in 2005 Consumer Price Index dollars. It'd be like six hundred some in dog dollars.
What's the effect of being raised by the kind of nerd who owned these things and even built some of them? This neuroscientist nerd has one nerd offspring PhD candidate in neuroscience, one PhD candidate in nanotech engineering, and one about to get her master's in neuroscience (but she's only 21 -- she'll catch up.
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> AWESOME! Where do I get one SERIOUSLY!
You can buy some of the parts, you can make some of them much more cheaply.
Uranium ore
http://www.unitednuclear.com/uranium.htm
(Yes, the polonium people. The low level stuff would work fine. So would a glow in the dark watch.)
Spinthariscope
http://www.unitednuclear.com/spinthariscope.htm
(Same people, and apparently the only manufacurer of spinthariscopes in the world.)
Electroscope
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/electroscope.html
Wilson Cloud Chamber
http://www.madphysics.com/exp/building_wilsons_cloud_chamber.htm
Geiger counter
http://www.imagesco.com/articles/geiger/01.html
(A high level do it yourself article)
http://www.blackcatsystems.com/GM/geiger_counter.html
http://www.mineralab.com/Geiger%20Counters.htm
http://www.gammascout.com/
(Three sources, models from $150 to $1,000)
Remember, that was $49.50 in 1951 dollars. That's $372 in 2005 Consumer Price Index dollars. It'd be like six hundred some in dog dollars.
What's the effect of being raised by the kind of nerd who owned these things and even built some of them? This neuroscientist nerd has one nerd offspring PhD candidate in neuroscience, one PhD candidate in nanotech engineering, and one about to get her master's in neuroscience (but she's only 21 -- she'll catch up.