Science on the air : popularizers and personalities on radio and early television /
Mr. Wizard's World. Bill Nye the Science Guy. NPR's Science Friday. These popular television and radio programs broadcast science into the homes of millions of viewers and listeners. But these modern series owe much of their success to the pioneering efforts of early-twentieth-century scie...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Mr. Wizard's World. Bill Nye the Science Guy. NPR's Science Friday. These popular television and radio programs broadcast science into the homes of millions of viewers and listeners. But these modern series owe much of their success to the pioneering efforts of early-twentieth-century science shows like Adventures in Science and "Our Friend the Atom." Science on the Air is the fascinating history of the evolution of popular science in the first decades of the broadcasting era. Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette transports readers to the early days of radio, when the new medium allowed innovativ. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 314 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-294) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780226466958 0226466957 1282239716 9781282239715 9786612239717 6612239719 |