Birth of a flame
General
Description
Originally broadcast as a segment of the television program Johns Hopkins science review on November 18, 1953 from the studios of WAAM in Baltimore, Md. Black and white. Lynn Poole, producer; Kennard Calfee, Herbert B. Cahan, directors; Ted Jaffee, narrator; produced by WAAM television station in Baltimore, Md. for the Dumont Network. William H. Avery, H. Lowell Lowell, E.L. Gayhart, Robert B. Edmondson, presenters. Digitized in 2004.
Abstract
Dr. Olsen, one of the team of scientists from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, briefly discusses the history of fire. He explains the zones and structure of a candle's flame and uses the Schlieren system of photography to detect the density gradients in the rising gas. Capt. Gayhart discusses the study of early spark-ignited flames, and he diagrams the operation of the Schlieren system. Mr. Edmondson shows three films of a flame's development in a stream of combustible gas taken at 100,000, 20 million, and 200 million frames per second.
Title Language
Dates
Date Published
1953-11-18
Publisher
Digital Publisher
Language
Identifiers
OCLC Number
54427682
Collection Number
COLL-0008
Resources
Resource Type
Moving Image
Extent
00:28:15hh:mm:ss
Subject
Contributor
Broadcaster (brd): Du Mont Television Network
Director (drt): Cahan, Herbert B.
Director (drt): Calfee, Kennard
Narrator (nrt): Jaffee, Ted
Production personnel (prd): Avery, William H.
Production personnel (prd): Edmondson, Robert B.
Production personnel (prd): Gayhart, E. L.
Production personnel (prd): Olsen, H. Lowell
Producer (pro): Poole, Lynn
Producer (pro): WAAM (Television station : Baltimore, Md.)
Copyright and Use
Copyright and Use
Copyright Not Evaluated
System
Access Rights
Public digital access
Model
Video
Unique ID
6099c3ec-a074-4bcd-b11b-f8ef5c281c74