Title: the Distribution of an Illustrated Timeline Wall Chart and Teacher's Guide of 20Fh Century Physics
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REPORT NSF GRANT #PHY-98143318 Title: The Distribution of an Illustrated Timeline Wall Chart and Teacher’s Guide of 20fhCentury Physics DOE Patent Clearance Granted December 26,2000 Principal Investigator, Brian Schwartz, The American Physical Society 1 Physics Ellipse College Park, MD 20740 301-209-3223 [email protected] BACKGROUND The American Physi a1 Society s part of its centennial celebration in March of 1999 decided to develop a timeline wall chart on the history of 20thcentury physics. This resulted in eleven consecutive posters, which when mounted side by side, create a %foot mural. The timeline exhibits and describes the millstones of physics in images and words. The timeline functions as a chronology, a work of art, a permanent open textbook, and a gigantic photo album covering a hundred years in the life of the community of physicists and the existence of the American Physical Society . Each of the eleven posters begins with a brief essay that places a major scientific achievement of the decade in its historical context. Large portraits of the essays’ subjects include youthful photographs of Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and Richard Feynman among others, to help put a face on science. Below the essays, a total of over 130 individual discoveries and inventions, explained in dated text boxes with accompanying images, form the backbone of the timeline. For ease of comprehension, this wealth of material is organized into five color- coded story lines the stretch horizontally across the hundred years of the 20th century. The five story lines are: Cosmic Scale, relate the story of astrophysics and cosmology; Human Scale, refers to the physics of the more familiar distances from the global to the microscopic; Atomic Scale, focuses on the submicroscopic This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or sumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or use- fulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference herein to any spe- cific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufac- turer, or otherwise docs not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, mm- mendation. or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof. The views and opinions of authors expdherein do not neassarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof. DISCLA1 M ER Portions of this document may be illegible in electronic image products. Images are produced from the best available original document. world of atoms, nuclei and quarks; Living World, chronicles the interaction of physics with biology and medicine; Technology, traces the applications of physic to everyday living. Woven into the bottom border of the timeline are period images of significant works of art, architecture, and technological artifacts such as telephones, automobiles, aircraft, computers, and appliances. The last poster, covering the years since 1995, differs from the others. Its essay concerns the prospect for physics into the next century, and is illustrated with pictures of promising award winning high school students who, it is hoped, will be the leading researchers of physics in the decades ahead. Appropriately the last entries in the timeline are not achievements but open questions to be answered in the future. PRODUCING THE TIMELINE The production and distribution of the timeline was a joint effort by many sponsors. The development of the concept, selection of events, photographs, writing of the text and the overall design and preparation for printing was supported by the American Physical Society. Lucent Technologies supported the costs of the printing materials and the professional 8-color processing for the production of 2 1,000 copies of the 1 1-poster timeline. The National Science Foundation together with the US Department of Energy supported the wide distribution of the timeline. The United Parcel Service supported the design and manufacturing of the special triangular cardboard container in which the timeline was shipped. A foundations, which wishes to remain anonymous, covered the cost of preparing and printing 2 1,000 copies of a teacher’s guide which was included with the timeline. The IBM Corporation, using the text and images from the timeline created a public web site for the timeline, see www.timeline.aps.org. DISTRIBUTING THE TIMELINE The APS offered the timeline as a gift to the physics or science teacher of every high school in the United States. To solve the problem of distribution of the timeline to all the high schools, the APS was able obtain a computer disc with a listing of every single high school in the United States for a modest cost ($125) from the Education Testing Service of Princeton, NJ. The number of high schools totaled over 28,000 and included public, private and parochial schools. Rather than simply sent the timeline to the school, a special brochure was prepared and sent to the physics or science teacher at all 28,000 high schools informing them of the availability and content of the timeline. To obtain the timeline the teacher was required to return an attached postcard by mail or fax with her or his name, school gabrielle radford PSC 118 Box 108 APO AB Canada Mary Burke 256-Erin Mount Cr. S.E. Calgary AB Mrs. Lera G. Shirley The Difference Box 216 Stn. 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