A Science Odyssey ★ "Lost" PBS Science History Series

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A Science Odyssey ★ "Lost" PBS Science History Series

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From: https://web.archive.org/web/19990202181730/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/

(25 Years Ago ... )

100 Years of Discovery, 5 Nights of Television (9 hours 9 minutes of video):

The airplane. Penicillin. Volcanoes. Radio. Organ transplants. The computer. Psychoanalysis. Plate tectonics. Black holes. The Model T. DNA. Apollo 8. Nylon. The Big Bang. One hundred years of unparalleled scientific and technological discovery come to PBS with the premiere of A Science Odyssey, a dynamic and dramatic five-part, ten-hour special hosted by Charles Osgood, debuting Sunday through Thursday, January 11 to 15, 1998 - from 8 to 10pm ET.

On the cusp of the millennium, A Science Odyssey takes a look back at the twentieth century, traveling from the days before antibiotics to the age of gene therapy; from Kitty Hawk to Cape Canaveral; from Freud's first explorations of the psyche to the latest research in neurophysiology; from the belief that the Milky Way was the entire universe to the discovery of 100 billion galaxies.

"Science is a great adventure story," says series executive producer Tom Friedman. "When you look at the history of science, you begin to realize that for each discovery, there's a discoverer. For each answer, there's a question. Who were these twentieth-century explorers? How were their discoveries made? What prompted their questions and sparked their imaginations? What were the circumstances of their times?"

Across the globe and through the decades, this landmark series brings to life the twentieth century's most enduring scientific stories and achievements -- the strokes of sheer brilliance, the heart-pounding excitement of moments of discovery -- when science advanced further than in all the previous centuries combined; when every scientific discipline, from astronomy to zoology, undergoes a revolution; and when remarkable new areas of study, from quarks to computer science, emerge.

Moving chronologically, each of A Science Odyssey's five programs captures the spirit and sweep of a century of extraordinary change, illuminating the political, economic, and cultural forces that have affected, accompanied, or been brought about by scientific and technological discovery.

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