“Learn! Investigate! Instruct!” — this was the rallying cry of a remarkable old-time radio series that brought the thrilling story of scientific progress directly into American living rooms. Written by Westinghouse physicist Dr. Phillips Thomas, Adventures in Research originally began as a question-and-answer session between the doctor and host Paul Shannon. To make the subject more exciting, Dr. Thomas soon transformed the show into a series of historically accurate, dramatized accounts of the world’s most important discoveries. Heard from 1946 into the 1950s and sponsored by Westinghouse, each fifteen-minute episode encourages new generations to carry forward the work of progress for humanity. This extensive collection preserves the dramatic documentary series that made science an adventure.
