The Franklin Institute
Subtitle: wonderland of science
By: a production of Echo Pictures, Inc. ; produced and directed by Marc and Chesney Doyle ; writers, Don Smith, Chesney Blankenstein Doyle
Contributors: Great Museums (Firm)
Series: Great Museums -- episode 303; Great museums for science
Publisher: Films for the Humanities and Sciences
Published: 2004
Place of publication: [Princeton, NJ]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Museums; Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Other titles: Great museums (Television program)
Description: "Founded to commemorate and continue the inventive spirit and scientific genius of Benjamin Franklin, the imposing Franklin Institute stands solid as a rock on 20th Street in Philadelphia.  Science is a phenomenon -- a process.  You can't put it in a museum display case.  On display at the Franklin Insititute is a surprising collection of ordinary, everyday experiences like stability, momentum, speed.  Yet its rich historical collection also charts the progress of science in America, from Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod to the Wright Brothers airfoils and flight experiment records, to one of the earliest planetariums in America.  The Franklin Institute aims to awaken the scientist in each and every one of us."  From www.greatmuseums.org
Notes: Disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.

Teacher's guide available online at: www.cambridgeeducational.com search: 35216.

Narrated by John Patrick.

DVD-R.

Closed-captioned.