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"Louis Pasteur" Microscope Set

  • After 1920

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Chemistry sets reached their heyday in the 1950s, but production of them began in the United States during World War I. Playing with a toy chemistry set inspired many a boy to become a chemist, and not until the late 1950s were girls considered an appropriate market.

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Science History Institute. "Louis Pasteur" Microscope Set. Photograph, 2017. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/tq57nr03d.

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