|
Porter Chemical Company was an American toy manufacturer that developed and produced chemistry sets aimed as educational toys for aspiring junior scientists. The company's ''Chemcraft'' kits were first sold at major retail by Woodward & Lothrop, and appeared soon after at other retailers in the country. The company would later form a relationship with the Lionel Corporation, famed American maker of toy trains. The company also made the ''Microcraft'' line of microscope sets. The ''Chemcraft'' and ''Microcraft'' line competed with similar sets offered by A. C. Gilbert Company as part of a boom in science educational toys spurred by the Space Race between the US and USSR in the late 1950s. It reached the height of its popularity in the 1950s when it would even mine its own chemicals, give out scholarships, and was the biggest users of test tubes in the USA. It sold over a million chemistry kits before going out of business in the 1980s over increased liability concerns. () ==External links== *(John Tyler, ''The Chemcraft Story: The Legacy of Harold Porter'', St Johann Press, 2003. ) *("The chemistry set generation", ''Chemistry World'', Dec 2007. ) *(The Story of Atomic Energy with Safe Experiments ) *("Wow! Now Chemcraft has ATOMIC ENERGY!", ''Popular Science'', Dec. 1947. ) *(Lionel-Porter Chemcraft Chemistry Lab, 1958 ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Porter Chemical Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|