Record Nr.

UNISA990000735860203316

Titolo

Itinerario turistico

Descrizione fisica

v. ; 30 cm

Disciplina

915.574

Collocazione

V G MISC 2/29

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Tit.della cop.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910959634603321

Autore

LaFollette Marcel Chotkowski <1944->

Titolo

Science on the air : popularizers and personalities on radio and early television / / Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2008

ISBN

9786612239717

9781282239715

1282239716

9780226466958

0226466957

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Classificazione

AP 35160

Disciplina

509.73/0904

Soggetti

Science news - United States - History

Communication in science - United States - History

Radio - United States - History

Television - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Tuxedos and microphones -- The radio nature league -- Syndicating science -- Cooperative ventures -- Shifting ground -- A twist of the dial -- Facts and fictionalizations -- Adventuring with scientists -- Broadcasting the voice of the atom -- Illusions of actuality -- Epilogue entertaining lessons.

Sommario/riassunto

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 da