TY - BOOK ID - 77878374 TI - Science on the air : popularizers and personalities on radio and early television. PY - 2008 SN - 1282239716 9786612239717 0226466957 9780226466958 9780226467597 0226467597 9781282239715 6612239719 PB - Chicago University of Chicago press DB - UniCat KW - Science news KW - Communication in science KW - Radio KW - Television KW - Radio vision KW - TV KW - Artificial satellites in telecommunication KW - Electronic systems KW - Optoelectronic devices KW - Telecommunication KW - Astronautics KW - Telephone, Wireless KW - Wireless (Radio) KW - Wireless telephone (Early radio) KW - Communication and traffic KW - Telegraph, Wireless KW - Communication in research KW - Science communication KW - Science information KW - Scientific communications KW - Science KW - News, Science KW - Popularization of science KW - Journalism KW - Technical writing KW - History. KW - Optical communication systems KW - Popularization UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77878374 AB - 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 ER -