Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... An experiment began on March 3, 1951, in the studios of what is today NBC-5 in Chicago. The question it sought to answer was: Could television use ...

Before the sum totality of human knowledge was available in the palm of your hand, and subsequently ignored for the latest cat video, scientists took to television to demonstrate kid-friendly ...

The children’s educational series Watch Mr. Wizard — which ended its original NBC run 60 years ago, on June 27, 1965 — introduced countless TV viewers to the wonders of science. And that’s a credit to ...

You may not remember [Mr. Wizard], but he was a staple of nerd kids over a few decades, teaching science to kids via the magic of television. The Computer History Archives Project has a partially ...