Browse Exhibits (2 total)
The Secret of Flight
1959, 13 episodes, State University of Iowa
From WNET:
"'The Secret of Flight' is a lecture series about the basic problems of flight, explained by visual presentation of flow experiments. As the material of the lectures should be understood by every interested listener, no mathematical or other theoretical knowledge is used for explanation. Every problem is demonstrated by a true-life experiment and purely scientific language is avoided. Each of the lectures deals with a basic problem of flight. The experiments are mostly shown as flow picture but at certain points scale models and flying models are used to ensure easier understanding. As an average there are about eight different experiments in a half hour lecture at the end of each presentation. The lecture series is divided into two main divisions. Lectures one through seven explain the basic problems which lead to the invention of the airplanes. Lectures eight through 13 point out the more modern problems of aerodynamics and explain some subjects of general interest which ae connected with flight and fluid motion. The series was produced by the State University of Iowa and directed by Sam Becker, head of SUI’s television department."
Frontier to space
26 episodes, 1957, New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
From WNET:
"This series of 26 fifteen minute programs deals with the fundamentals of rocketry and associated problems, attempting to present for the average intelligent layman some of the basic problems of jet propulsion and capabilities and limitations of rockets in the present status of rocket development. Considerable use is made of films of actual rocket tests and preparations, much of this material coming from official files at White Sands Proving Ground. The series was developed for the Center by the Physical Science Laboratory of the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. White Sands Proving Ground (Fort Blass, Texas), the Applied Air Research Center at Sunspot, New Mexico, and Holloman Air Force Base also cooperated in the production. Narrator for the series is Dr. Russell K. Sherburne of New Mexico A&MA. It was produced by Paul Rader and Fred Lawrence."