Paul Schatzkin

Biographer of Obscure 20th Century Scientists, Nut behind the wheel of a 1949 Chevy 3100 Pickup (

[Paul Schatzkin @driver49]

I just remembered today is the Anniversary of both Trinity (1945) and the launch of Apollo 11 (1969). Great achievements, but Mankind is still just apes w Nukes. https://t.co/8MjxnKcr2f

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With 315 days remaining until the Centennial Countdown #45 recalls "the whole world was watching" as police beat protesters on the streets of Chicago during DNC in August, 1968.
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With 322 days remaining until the Centennial, its time to look at how television covered the war in Vietnam – and the impact that coverage had on the war itself.
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With 329 days remaining until the Centennial, television goes global with "Our World" – the first broadcast carried around the globe by satellite.
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With 336 days remaining until the Centennial, Countdown #48 explores how TV contributed to the ascent of professional football.
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With 357 days remaining until the Centennial Countdown #51 revisits one of the truly, literally, game-changing innovations in broadcasting: the Instant Replay.
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With ONE YEAR remaining until the Centennial of Television this BONUS EDITION of the Countdown recalls why that date should ring in the annals of history.
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With 364 days remaining until the Centennial, Countdown #52 recalls the unifying presence of television in the wake of the Kennedy Assassination on November 22, 1963.
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With 371 days remaining until the Centennial Countdown #53 returns to the U.K. for a milestone in political satire: David Frost and "That Was The Week That Was."
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With 378 days remaining until the Centennial Countdown #54 recalls the role of television in the Cuban Missile Crisis in October, 1962.
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With 385 days remaining until the Centennial, Countdown #55 "travels the world to witness the variety of athletic competition" with ABC's Wide World of Sports starting in 1961.
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@Scott__Cheggs Twice was enough. Hasn't everybody wondered what firing a bazooka would do to big tits?

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With 392 days remaining until the Centennial, Countdown #56 examines the election of the first "television president," John F. Kennedy in 1960.
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With 399 days remaining until the Centennial, Countdown #57 looks at the years 1958 and 1959, when the TV hit introduced advances in color programming and and experienced its first industry scandal.
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Had an amazing chat with emmy award nominee and author @driver49 about one of the most obscure geniuses of the 20th century, Philo Farnsworth. He invented the electronic television and later went on to tackle one of humanity's greatest scientific challenges: nuclear fusion. Full podcast coming soon!

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With 406 days remaining until the Centennial, Countdown #58 quiz show "I've Got A Secret" introduced "The famous Dr. Philo T. Farnsworth" – so "famous" that by 1957 nobody had any idea who he was.
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With 413 days remaining until the Centennial of Television on September 7, 2027, Countdown #59 recounts how the airing of "The Wizard of Oz" on CBS in 1956 brought Hollywood into the living room.

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That video recorder in your pocket was once the size of a refrigerator. Countdown #60 recalls the introduction of the first Ampex videotape recorder in April, 1956.
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With 434 days remaining until the Centennial of Television on September 7, 2027, Countdown #61 recounts the evolution of the first big advance in the television user experience: the remote control.
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With 434 days remaining until the Centennial of Television Countdown #62 introduces Ed Sullivan, smdf the night Ed introduced Elvis Presley to the largest television audience t nearly 60 million people.
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With 441 days remaining until the Centennial of Television on September 7, 2027, Countdown #61 explores the origins of "The Honeymooners."
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