Abstract: Lynn Poole displays a chart of the orchestra sections strings woodwinds brass and percussion Dr William Hart timpanist with the Baltimore Symphonic Orchestra and professor at the Peabody conservatory of Music defines the elements of music rhythm melody and harmony and demonstrates each of them on the piano noting that the percussion instruments are the dispensers of rhythm He gives a brief history of percussive music while showing instruments such as the timbro castanets cymbals tambourine and Chinese temple blocks With the assistance of fellow timpanist Dr William G DeLeon Dr Hart demonstrates and explains the snare drum the most common percussive instrument the xylophone and its use in modern compositions such as the Sabre Dance the cymbals and their contrasting use in Wagners Die Walkure and Debussys Festivals and the kettle drums or timpani which can be tuned and which provide the heartbeat of the orchestra
Date Published: 1958-01-11
Abstract: Lynn Poole opens the program with a brief history of radar Dr JW Gebhard research psychologist with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab APL explains that his job is to improve the way men interpret radar pictures on an Ascope He then demonstrates a PPI plan position indicator scope which uses a bearing dial and cursor to locate a target Dr Albert Stone a physicist with the APL explains that RADAR is an acronym for radio detection and ranging which measures unknown distances accurately He demonstrates radars principles and explains how it works including the radar antenna that indicates direction A film shows a police radar speed meter in operation This is doppler radar measuring only velocity Other film clips show the use of radar at sea for guiding ships into harbors air radar for a flight across Lake Erie and storm forecasting radar Dr Gebhard describes ground control approach GCA radar including a film of one hour of airplane flights compressed to a few minutes
Date Published: 1958-11-23
Abstract: This program features Christmas music by the Johns Hopkins University Glee Club directed by James Mitchell and the University of Maryland Mixed Vocal Group directed by Charles Haslup The University of Maryland group sings Winter Wonderland Ill Be Home for Christmas White Christmas Come All Ye Faithful and Holy Night The Hopkins Glee Club sings the Ukrainian hymn Glory to God Go Tell It on the Mountain Indulci Jubilo See That Babe in the Lowly Manger and The Bells Johns Hopkins student composer Richard Kapp plays Bells Wassail and Boy Meets Santa original Christmas pieces for the piano Hopkins president Milton S Eisenhower presents his annual Christmas message discussing the traditions of the celebration and observation of this holiday the widely divergent moral convictions threatening the world today and the qualities of good character
Date Published: 1956-12-15
Abstract: Lynn Poole opens this program on mans ability to measure with a sample of the first standardized measurement a cubit used in building the pyramids Dr Allen Astin and his colleagues from the U S National Bureau of Standards NBS discuss the four standards of measurement lengthmeter masskilogram timetropical year and temperaturesix points of Celsius Dr Astin also talks about direct measurement with a simple balance vs indirect measurement with a proving ring or dynamometer Dr Robert Huntoon points out that the earths rotation varies so to determine the exact time the NBS uses quartz crystals or for more accuracy ammonium atom vibration or a cesium clock operating on the forces within the cesium atom The new accurate reference for measuring length is the mercury 198 lamp In temperature standards Dr Herbert Broida notes that the Soviet Union is able to accurately measure extreme temperatures which are important in the space race
Date Published: 1959-03-15
Abstract: Lynn Poole asks Dr George Boas Johns Hopkins professor emeritus of philosophy a series of questions about the concern that in 1959 scientific problems seem more important than humanistic problems Dr Boas responds that there are four reasons for problems becoming obsolete and he gives examples of each they are insoluble peoples interests change they arise from assumptions no longer held and the problems themselves go out of style When Mr Poole asks if there are any humanistic problems whose solution would affect the lives of many people Dr Boas lists standardized textbooks in education the trend towards authoritarianism and the elimination of provincialism He notes that there is no one right answer in the humanities every person is his own interpreter He illustrates this with a passage from the play Hamlet Piero della Francescas painting Resurrection and the music of Bachs St Matthew Passion
Date Published: 1959-03-01
Abstract: Biologist George Schwartz explains how the microprojector microscope which he developed displays the microcosm in a drop of water on a television monitor He shows slides of the shells of diatoms the basic food source in fresh and salt water amoeba which move by protoplasmic flow blepharisma a onecelled organism rotifers multicelled organisms and euglena used in anemia research because of their sensitivity to vitamin B12 Mr Schwartz discusses producers such as diatoms consumers animals and reducers bacteria fungi mold and shows a diagram of a food pyramid of the producers and consumers in Antarctic waters A film of a microdissection apparatus introduces new ways to research microscopic life
Date Published: 1958-02-15
Abstract: This program uses authentic photos and drawings made on the scene as the backdrop to the story of the initiation of preparation for and fighting of the Spanish American War Walter Millis military historian and author of The Martial Spirit a study of our war with Spain sketches the events and personalities of the US intervention into Cubas revolt against Spain beginning with the mysterious explosion of the battleship Maine in Havana Harbor Mr Millis highlights the various roles played by Theodore Roosevelt throughout the episode as well as the military strategy of such leaders as Spanish Admiral Pascual Cervera and US Army General William Shafter He explains how the scope of the war extended to Puerto Rico Guam and the Philippines and resulted in the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands
Date Published: 1959-02-15
Abstract: In this program the United States Naval Academy gymnastics team performs at the Johns Hopkins University gymnasium Friedrich Jahn the father of gymnastics developed the sport in Germany in 1910 Head gymnastics coach Chet Phillips says that gymnastics requires coordination form and grace and that fluidity or elegance without breaks is critical A Naval Academy team member demonstrates a routine on the side horse the least hazardous of the apparatus Assistant coach John Rammacher describes the swings releases and catches somersaults and holds required in a routine on the parallel bars the easiest piece of equipment to start Members of the gymnastics team demonstrate swings vaults and somersaults on the high bar the most dangerous event and Mr Phillips explains the importance of chalking hands to perform well Tumbling team members demonstrate the variations of somersaults including roundoffs required for a routine in this event
Date Published: 1959-04-05
Abstract: Lynn Poole gives a brief history of this fastest game on two feet which the Indians called Baggataway and the French lacrosse Former player and member of the US Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association William Morrill describes how the games equipment and rules have changed and explains todays field layout rules players and equipment Robert Scott head coach and Wilson Fewster assistant coach of the Johns Hopkins University lacrosse team the Blue Jays explain skills such as passing and cradling personal and technical fouls stick work dodges and face off strategies while team members demonstrate The coaches give a playbyplay commentary of film footage from the 1957 NavyHopkins lacrosse game Coach Scott interviews Hopkinss AllAmerican player Mickey Webster who explains why he enjoys lacrosse its appeal to fans and its difference from football Lynn Poole lists other schools fielding lacrosse teams describes the qualities lacrosse instills in players and mentions that Hopkins is the current holder of the Wingate Trophy named for Baltimore sports writer W Wilson Wingate and emblematic of the intercollegiate lacrosse championship
Date Published: 1958-03-22
Abstract: Dr Donald Benson anesthesiologistincharge at Johns Hopkins Hospital and associate professor of anesthesiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine announces that the expired air resuscitation method is much preferred to the prone pressure method both of which are demonstrated for victims in need of artificial respiration He outlines the history of assisted ventilation including Elijahs documented use of it in the Bible Versaliuss use of bellows to inflate lungs of animals in 1555 Hookes discovery of the function of lungs in 1667 the development of the safety bellows for humans in 1827 and the implementation of the prone pressure method in 1893 and Britains rocking method in 1932 Dr Benson describes breathings response to anaesthesia as well as the normal breathing process A film shows a patient undergoing thoracic surgery whose breathing is controlled by a breathing bag attached to an endotrachial tube Dr Benson explains and demonstrates mechanical respiration
Date Published: 1958-12-21
Abstract: Using charts and photos Edward McClain of the Radio Astronomy branch of the US Naval Research Lab and Bernard Burke of the Carnegie Institute of Washington DC discuss the radio window a larger wavelength band than the optical one for making earthbased observations of space In 1932 Karl Jansky from Bell Labs discovered radio noise from space Five years later Grote Reber built the first antenna for astronomical observations The sun was discovered to be a source of radiation and radio waves as were the Milky Way and Crab Nebula Later J G Bolton and J G Stanley discovered a variable source of cosmic radio frequency radiation in the constellation Cygnus That plus Cassiopeia are the most intense radio sources in the heavens Additional research resulted in Martin Ryles development of interferometric techniques A E Lillys observation of the spiral structure of the universe and J H Oorts mapping of our own galaxy In 1944 H Van de Hulst predicted that a hydrogen cloud produces radiation in the radio range of 21cm wavelength E Purcell and H Ewen confirmed this theory detecting a 21cm cosmic gas emission from neutral hydrogen in the Milky Way in 1951 Ohio Universitys John Kraus was instrumental in detecting the Milky Ways radio transmissions In 1955 the Mills Cross Array a simple radio antenna built by Australian B Mills was used to record the radio noise produced by the planet Jupiter The antenna most commonly used is the paraboloidal reflector with a diameter of 8090 ft The largest steerable radio reflector is at Jodrell Bank in the UK Plans for the National Radio Astronomical Observatory at Green Bank West Virginia are underway at the time of this program Increasing research will help to explain whether the explosion theory or the continuous creation theory of the universe is more valid
Date Published: 1958-01-18
Abstract: Dr Donald Andrews chemical professor at Johns Hopkins University JHU introduces this program with a brief report from the recent National Science Foundations conference on chemistry teachers held at JHU which encouraged coordination of the chemistry curriculum between high schools and universities He then shows a film developed by the Hopkins chemistry department Operation Chemist by Milner Productions which follows a representative student through the JHU chemistry program and lists the options open to him The universitys introductory chemistry course stresses quantitative rather than qualitative problems This is followed by experimental problems and specialty fields such as organic chemistry as taught by Dr Alex Nickon shown using molecular models in a research seminar or biochemistry using lab animals to research the relation between food and exercise on the heart The film highlights examples of the equipment available to students
Date Published: 1957-12-28
Abstract: This program introduces radartracking of storms with a filmed sequence of a time lapse PPI plan position indicator scope view of a hurricane Dr George Benton Johns Hopkins University professor of meteorology describes the origins of radar an acronym for radio detection and ranging and how it works First used to detect and track airplanes radar now locates clouds and precipitation Dr Benton compares echoes from 1 cm 10 cm and 23 cm wavelength radar sets used to detect various types of weather Captain Howard Orville meteorologist consultant for BendixFreeze Corp in Baltimore lists some of the milestones in radar history 1922 A Hoyt Taylor was one of the inventors of radar 1941 the first hailstorm was tracked and 1944 the first eye of a hurricane was tracked He stresses the importance of radar in meteorology and displays the tracks of hurricanes Diane Connie and Audrey on a map Dr Benton describes types of storms and the amount of warning time radar can provide
Date Published: 1957-11-09
Abstract: Lynn Poole interviews Dr S Fred Singer associate professor of physics at University of Maryland scientific consultant on US Air Forces FARSIDE project and father of the earliest practical satellite MOUSE Minimal Orbital Unmanned Satellite Dr Singer lists the primary contributors to propulsion Newton Tsiolkovsky Oberth and Goddard He explains that the technical aspects of a rocket include propulsion guidance payload and reentry Currently chemical propulsion systems are used to launch rockets but other propulsion systems such as iron photon fusion and fission are being studied Dr Singer sketches a diagram to explain how gravitational pull and velocity make a satellite orbit and notes that a velocity greater than seven miles per second results in escape velocity and nonreturn of the satellite The purpose of basic research he says is to train young people such as the University of Maryland students who designed and built Terrapin and Oriole rockets
Date Published: 1957-11-30
Abstract: This program celebrates with photos and songs the centuries of international university Christmases such as at Johns Hopkins Bologna Italy Center The seventymember Johns Hopkins University Glee Club directed by James Mitchell sings such pieces as O Come O Come Emanuel Indulci Jubilo Salvation is Created and Angels We Have Heard on High An 1884 photo shows the first 13member Hopkins Glee Club including Woodrow Wilson and a 1957 photo shows the traditional Gilman Hall Step Sing Projecting into the future an electronic brain generates Christmas songs with electrons as they might be played in 2057 Johns Hopkins University president Milton S Eisenhower discusses the celebration of the nativity and the Christian principles by which free men live and on which universities center their programs
Date Published: 1957-12-14
