> It is equally difficult to source ideas for the curriculum. Many classic amateur chemistry books are out of print, and there is little incentive to publish mo

> It is equally difficult to source ideas for the curriculum. Many classic amateur chemistry books are out of print, and there is little incentive to publish more. So then! My place of work, the Science History Institute, has a number of old amateur chemistry experiment books digitized online and freely accessible. My job includes developing and managing the web site/app we use to manage our digitized content and present it to you! Let's see if I wind up giving our site the kiss of death, which will be embarrassing for me, it's usually pretty solid, but, it doesn't usually get much traffic and doesn't yet have a lot of defenses against it, this is a small non-profit operation. :( But I can't resist sharing this very relevant content! Most of these are booklets which accompanied particular chemistry sets. (Also should probably say conduct at your own risk?). Note there are PDF download options available under the "download" menu. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/tvu6pby https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/tvu6pby https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/upl4n7s https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/upl4n7s https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/e7ft0h9 https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/e7ft0h9 https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/bmt5ls5 https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/bmt5ls5 https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/4kvkrsz https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/4kvkrsz https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/so1jbnu https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/so1jbnu https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/cqmqcyh https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/cqmqcyh Oh hey, here's a bonus one about electrical rather than chemistry experiments, from 1891! https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/ssax7fn https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/ssax7fn We also have some of the actual chemistry sets in our museum, and pictures of some of them online, for those interested: https://digital.sciencehistory.org/catalog?f%5Bformat_facet%5D%5B%5D=Physical+Object&f%5Bsubject_facet%5D%5B%5D=Chemistry+sets&sort=oldest_date https://digital.sciencehistory.org/catalog?f%5Bformat_facet%... And finally, here's a Google Arts & Culture online museum exhibition we made about Chemistry Sets. (This was one of the first online Google A&C things our curators made, which possibly shows...) https://artsandculture.google.com/story/nAXRsuiYboFtKA https://artsandculture.google.com/story/nAXRsuiYboFtKA