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Historical Footage
Thomas Edison
Featuring movie pioneer and inventor
Thomas Edison with his early camera, the 1894 kineticscope later
displayed by his widow on the fiftieth anniversary of the motion
picture (TRT: 0:23 min.)
Radio News
In 1945, people across America
listen to the radio to learn news of the Pearl Harbor bombing
(TRT: 0:32 min.)
Early Television Broadcasts
A 1931 silent film revealing the
science of the first vaudeville show to be broadcast in television
trials TRT: 0:30 sec.
Prepared and Frozen Foods
1958 color footage
of people enjoying prepared and frozen foods, including frozen
French Fries and canned whipped cream (TRT:
2:35 min.)
Early Motion Picture
Scenes from the 1903 silent film
"The Great Train Robbery" (TRT:
4:29 min.)
Video Interviews
 Lewis Branscomb
Branscomb is Albert Pratt Public Service Professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is an atomic and molecular physicist whose posts have ranged from director of the U.S. National Bureau of Standards to chief scientist at IBM. Branscomb was interviewed by author and former Business Week technology editor Robert Buderi. (TRT: 14:52 min.)
 Robert Buderi
Buderi is a former Business Week technology editor and the author of The Invention That Changed the World, about the race to develop radar. A former Vannevar Bush Fellow at MIT, Buderi is researching a book on the evolution and current state of industrial research around the world. He was interviewed by Business Week Online Creative Director Arthur Eves. (TRT: 12:49 min.)
 David Gelernter
Gelernter is chief scientist at Mirror Worlds Technologies in New Haven, Conn., and professor of computer science at Yale University, where his research centers on parallel programming and artificial intelligence. His books include Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology and Mirror Worlds. He was interviewed by Business Week Associate Economics Editor Peter Coy. (TRT: 13:28
min.)
 Neil Gershenfeld
Gershenfeld leads the Physics & Media Group at MIT's Media Lab and co-directs the Things That Think industrial research consortium, which investigates new digital applications from electronic inks to wearable computers. He is the author of When Things Start To Think. Gershenfeld was interviewed by author and former Business Week technology editor Robert Buderi. (TRT: 13:28
min.)
 Robert Kanigel
Kanigel is the author of The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency, an acclaimed study of the father of "Scientific Management." Kanigel teaches writing at the University of Baltimore and is also the author of The Man Who Knew Infinity, about Indian mathematician Ramanujan. Kanigel was interviewed by Business Week Books Editor Hardy Green. (TRT: 13:41 min.)
 Robert Lucky
Lucky is corporate vice-president for applied research at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore). Previously, he had a distinguished career in telecommunications research at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Lucky, who is also the author of Silicon Dreams, was interviewed by Senior Writer Neil Gross, who covers science and technology for Business Week. (TRT: 12:08
min.)
 Michael Lynch
Lynch is an expert on oil and energy and a visiting scholar at the Center for International Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he serves as executive director of the school's Working Group on Asian Energy & Security. He was interviewed by Business Week's Boston bureau chief, William Symonds. (TRT: 14:21 min.)
 Cherry Murray
Murray is director of physical sciences research at Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs and an expert in condensed matter physics. Her lab has produced such recent innovations as tiny telecom devices known as optical MEMS. Murray was interviewed by Business Week Senior Writer Catherine Arnst, who covers medicine, science, and technology. (TRT: 6:17 min.)
 Nathan Myhrvold
Myhrvold is chief technology officer at Microsoft Corp. He holds a PhD in mathematical and theoretical physics from Princeton University and studied with Stephen Hawking at Cambridge University. He was interviewed by Business Week Senior Writer Neil Gross, who covers science and technology for the magazine. (TRT: 8:24 min.)
 Paul Raeburn
Raeburn is the senior editor for science, technology, medicine, and the environment at Business Week and the author of The Last Harvest: The Genetic Gamble That Threatens to Destroy American Agriculture as well as Mars: Uncovering the Secrets of the Red Planet. He was interviewed by Ellen Licking, a science editor at the magazine. (TRT: 13:43
min.)
 Richard Rhodes
Rhodes is the author of numerous books, including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, for which he won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, and Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. He was interviewed by Business Week Associate Economics Editor Peter Coy, who previously covered science and technology for the magazine. (TRT: 13:47 min.)
 Edward Tenner
Tenner, a former executive editor for physical science and history at Princeton University Press, is the author of Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences. He holds a visiting research appointment in the geological & geophysical sciences department at Princeton University. Tenner was interviewed by Business Week Associate Economics Editor Peter Coy. (TRT: 13:12 min.)
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