TY - ART DB - Science History Institute DP - Science History Institute M2 - Courtesy of Science History Institute. Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License TI - Gilbert Lab Technician Set for Girls ID - 4m90dv529 AU - Science History Institute DA - 2017/// YR - 2017 M3 - photograph UR - https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/4m90dv529 AB - 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. KW - Chemistry sets KW - A.C. Gilbert Company LA - English ER -