Sargent-Welch Vintage Molecular Models Set Maine All are rendered in vivid

All are rendered in vivid color with wonderful detail

welding on the iron legs

and at 3 1/2 by 6 1/4" it's of a nice size for display

the original instruction booklet (a great historic document

Sargent-Welch Vintage Molecular Models Set Maine All are rendered in vividYes, these would be useful for teaching (or, in my case re learning!) the basic principals of atomic structure, but I bought them just because I think they're quite fun to construct great looking colorful tabletop sculptures with! This set does not include an instruction book, but I know that the different color wooden spheres are meant to represent different elements hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, etc. These can be configured into molecules