"Television: the revolution," ([1944])

Page scan 000152 from "Television: the revolution,"

Record Details:

Title:
"Television: the revolution,"
Date:
[1944]
Publisher:
New York, Essential Books
Volume:
"Television: the revolution,"
Leaf #:
000152
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Prelinger Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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"PREVIEW OF COMING ATTRACTIONS" 133 of the homes of Americans—to thrill an appre- ciative audience which might never have known them otherwise. An extremely important location of America's television receivers will be in the school rooms of the nation. A national school of the air, con- ducted in co-operation with leading universities, the A.A.T. and the broadcasters, will bring visual education to a new high in interest and effectiveness. The graphic demonstrational pos- sibilities are enormous. The possibility that Robert Andrews Millikan may assist the local high school physics teacher in instructing his class means a vastly better-educated youth. Albert Einstein, Walter Damrosch, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Bel Geddes—such nation- ally famous authorities may join students in the class-room by television to instruct in mathe- matics, music, English, and art. The public school-teacher, working side-by-side with the eminent authority on the television screen, may very literally be the educational team of the future. Nor will demonstrations be limited to the scope and facilities of the high school labora- tory; the world's most vast observatories, plane- taria, museums, galleries, zoological gardens,