"Learn! Investigate! Instruct!" written by physicist, Dr. Phillips Thomas, this historically accurate series includes recordings about the invention of the typewriter, automobile, penicillin, machine gun, skyscraper, and more!
196 old time radio show recordings
(total playtime 47 hours, 30 min)
available in the following formats:
"Learn! Investigate! Instruct! Urging new generations to carry forward the work of progress for humanity... listen to the voice of science!"
The Adventures of Research collection is a great and highly informative old time radio Series. These are the tales of the dramatic and entertaining accounts in the scientific research history. Written by Westinghouse physicist Dr. Phillips Thomas, to encourage a civic an interest in science.
Originally Adventures of Research was a Question and Answer session between Dr. Phillips Thomas and Paul Shannon, but to make the show more exciting, the Westinghouse physicist wrote dramatized versions of important discoveries.
Adventures of Research features dramatized versions of scientific discoveries such as the invention of the typewriter, the automobile, penicillin, machine gun, skyscraper, and many more.
Sponsored by Westinghouse, Adventures of Research was heard from 1946 into the 1950s. Historically accurate, these fifteen-minute shows are very entertaining; Adventures in Research is a great way to learn about great scientific discoveries throughout history.
I am a retired Ph.D. chemist who occasionally provides an "Enrichment" lecture or two to high school classes. Physical/Theoretical Chemistry is a tough sell to the current generation of high school students - too much math, eyes glaze over, etc.
BUT if one can tell THE STORY behind the science, then the students are MUCH more interested! [Ex: "As a Professor at Stuttgart, (Assistant) Professor Schrodinger developed the Schrodinger Equation while residing in a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients. The Schrodinger Equation is the basis for Quantum Mechanics, and provides the principles for virtually every electronic device that you have ever known..."] Okay, this script is probably not in this collection, but it provides teachers in many fields with some ideas about how to incorporate THE STORY with the technical data by using this collection.
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