UWTV Program: An Unknown History of Science in America at The Franklin Institute
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An Unknown History of Science in America at The Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute offers an electronic presentation of its Case Files, a collection of primary source documents that exists as an unknown repository of the history of science and technology. The University of Pennsylvania’s Department of History and Sociology of Science hosted a Symposium to discuss the historical, scientific, and educational merit of the Case Files, which date from the 1820s, as a modern day resource for undergraduate, graduate, and professional scholars, as well as K-12 students.

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Speaker(s): Dennis M. Wint, Ph.D. President and CEO, The Franklin Institute

Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Ph.D. Janice and Julian Bers professor, University of Pennsylvania

Peter J. Collings, Ph.D. Morris L. Clothier professor, Physics, Swarthmore College

Karen Elinich, director, Educational Technology & Integrated Learning Programs, The Franklin Institute

Nathan Ensmenger, Ph.D., assistant professor, History & Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

Related Link(s):Franklin Institute website
Production Date: 04/26/2006
Runtime: 00:56:11
Rating:TV-G
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