STORY OF SCIENCE Part 6

Description

PARTIALLY-EDITED SCIENTIFIC DOCUMENTARY: On innovations in medicine and astronomy. Discusses the development of the microscope in Delft, Holland. Louis Pasteur studies effect of heat in germ-control, rabies treatment in France, and pasteurization. Doctor in Berlin saves child with diphtheria injection, leading to global mass immunization of children against the disease. Manufacture of microscopes at Bausche and Lomb factory, New York, Exhibits at New York's Hayden Planetarium. Narrator explains division of time, path of the zodiac, and uses of observatory globe and sun dial, Stills of Galileo Galilei's development of telescope.

Collection

Harmon Foundation Collection

Series

Motion Picture Films on Community and Family Life, Education, Religious Beliefs, and the Art and Culture of Minority and Ethnic Groups