As much as it's a fascinating project, a lot of the things described are things you can easily find described by looking for just slightly older books and magazines.
E.g. my dad had a series of books from his childhood setting out "experiments for boys" from the 1950s and 1960s, that because they were targeting low cost and ability for children to reproduce them (though by the time I got them in the early 1980s some materials were already tricky to obtain because they were considered too dangerous - the books contained plenty of experiments including fireworks and e.g. acids for example).
It was how I learned both to make carbon microphones like the one he described, and other fun things like electroplating (unfortunately I learned how to do that by toying with electrolysis with lead electrodes and accidentally covering one of my mum's silver spoons in lead - it was not popular)
Combine those kind of books with a good guide for how to safely extract the chemicals etc. that are now a hassle to come by, and you'd bootstrap a very substantial amount of processes and skills.
E.g. my dad had a series of books from his childhood setting out "experiments for boys" from the 1950s and 1960s, that because they were targeting low cost and ability for children to reproduce them (though by the time I got them in the early 1980s some materials were already tricky to obtain because they were considered too dangerous - the books contained plenty of experiments including fireworks and e.g. acids for example).
It was how I learned both to make carbon microphones like the one he described, and other fun things like electroplating (unfortunately I learned how to do that by toying with electrolysis with lead electrodes and accidentally covering one of my mum's silver spoons in lead - it was not popular)
Combine those kind of books with a good guide for how to safely extract the chemicals etc. that are now a hassle to come by, and you'd bootstrap a very substantial amount of processes and skills.