If you watched the Mickey Mouse Club way back when, you might remember Professor Wonderful, who was, in reality, physics professor [Julius Sumner Miller]. He also had his own show, \u201cWhy Is It So?\u201d along with appearances on talk shows. We recently ran across one of the shows from 1962 where [Miller] uses electromagnets to break a lamp.<\/p>\n
[Miller] moved to Australia, and this episode is from the Australian version of \u201cWhy Is It So?\u201d As you might expect, given the topic, the professor covers Oersted and Faraday.<\/p>\n
We enjoyed not only the science but also the historical anecdotes. The professor\u2019s delivery is interesting and entertaining, too. If you ever need to determine if an incandescent lamp is operating on AC or DC, the professor will show you how to employ a horseshoe magnet and, in fact, remotely destroys the lamp in the process.<\/p>\n
Once that\u2019s done, the topic changes to chimneys and straws. Towards the end, the professor moves to acoustics, playing music and visualizing waveforms with sugar.<\/p>\n
While we haven\u2019t seen a science show like this in a long time, we suppose there are many YouTube channels if you look for them. We\u2019ve covered the great professor before<\/a>. In the United States, he\u2019s not as well remembered as Mr. Wizard<\/a>, but we admire everyone who passes knowledge along to the next generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you watched the Mickey Mouse Club way back when, you might remember Professor Wonderful, who was, in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271],"tags":[18,19,17,452,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-471571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-physics","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-physics","12":"tag-science"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116528720826245799","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}