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Download e-book for iPad: SONNETS & SUNSPOTS: "DR. RESEARCH" BAXTER AND THE BELL by Eric Niderost

By Eric Niderost

ISBN-10: 1629330515

ISBN-13: 9781629330518

Sonnets & Sunspots tells the tale of 1 of the main loved renowned technology sequence of all time, and the charismatic educator who turned an icon to numerous generations of scholars. The e-book is usually a desirable background of renowned technological know-how programming in tv and picture from its primitive beginnings to the twenty-first century. alongside the best way there are exciting backstage tales of every construction and the personalities that have been concerned with them. Dr. Frank Baxter, a Professor of English Literature on the college of Southern California, grew to become a technology hero to hundreds of thousands because of his alter-ego, “Dr. Research.” Many scholars even turned scientists as a result of Baxter and the Bell motion pictures, the most pleasing and informative exhibits ever made.

As the story unfolds we meet such humans as famed Hollywood director Frank Capra, Walt Disney, mythical voice actor June Foray, Eddie Albert, Richard Carlson, motion picture tycoon Jack Warner, James Burke of Connections reputation, Carl Sagan of Cosmos, and a ranking of others. The e-book additionally chronicles the tale of public tv from its earliest beginnings, together with the struggles of such pioneering stations as Houston’s KUHT and San Francisco’s KQED.

The quantity is illustrated by means of pictures and artwork of the interval, a lot of them from the author’s personal collection.

"A attention-grabbing and infrequently funny examine the early years of technological know-how broadcasting. crucial interpreting on the way to know the way we obtained here."
– James Burke, Connections and the information Web

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