Unfortunate that kids today are so deprived of actual information. This kid here probably wasn’t a day older than 12 and he had a comprehensive definition of inertia. A property of matter and this kid knew pretty much what it is. I grew up watching Mr Wizard and loved it. Still do
I'm sure he studied up on it before the show to save production time. Kids are pretty smart today with operating electronics, and they learn arithmetic a more complicated way (why I don't know), plus they're have in the back of their minds some kid entering their school with an AR-15 to possibly kill them. Being a kid today, and even an adult is pretty difficult today. In 1962 we didn't have a former president as a traitor too.
@@interstategar You shouldn't talk about Obama like that. If you're interested in traitors, take a look at the current resident of the White House. He's been taking foreign money for years.
@@interstategarThe chances of kids dying in school from "some kid entering their school with an AR-15" to kill them are extremely remote. They have a higher chance of drowning. You're engaging in hysteria, and the "former president" was no more a "traitor" than the people falsely accusing him of being a Russian puppet for four years.
Although the first seat belt patent was granted in 1885 in New York, seat belts weren't required equipment on vehicles until 1968 (6 years after this episode aired). Prior to 1968, only a handful of companies offered seat belts, usually as an extra-cost option. Ford offered seat belts as an option for $9 and reported a mere 2% customer acceptance rate. Seat belt use laws didn't begin until 1984, 99 years after that initial patent was granted.
I watched him in the fifties and I'm pretty sure the show originated in Chicago: Wikipedia: Watch Mr. Wizard first aired on NBC on March 3, 1951, with Don Herbert as the title character. In the weekly half-hour live television show, Herbert played a science hobbyist and every Saturday morning a neighbor would come to visit." . He didn't mention that inertia is a property of mass and that it is a resistance or opposition to acceleration.. this is also why we have Newton's third law. The inertia resists your push and you can view that as it is pushing back on you. . When he put the bricks on the skate, he was actually confusing the starting friction with inertia. However, the effect is rather similar. . It's very good that he mentions that the tablecloths should be smooth and also have no hem. The hem is really important.no-hen is really important.
I didn't watch this show much, at 14 years of age (in 1962) I felt this was kids stuff as I was already making working rockets using KNO3 & sugar for fuel. You heated them in a stainless steel pan until they melted together & poured them molten hot into your rocket tube.
Don Herbert was a great educator. He made science accessible, fun, and interesting. (I love this channel!)
I didn’t know they have CVS receipts back then
1962 Kids : Newtons laws of motion
2023 Kids : I can't read an analog clock
2020: A young senator signs his name like a third grader.
(Looking at you Hawley.)
A great show. Calm people in a calmer time.
جميل ورائع.. سعيد بهذه النوعية من البرامج
Thanks for telling us the way to
Your announcer: Don Pardo! The other "Saturday Night Live" connection is the technical director, Heino Ripp.
Awesome loved this show
Unfortunate that kids today are so deprived of actual information. This kid here probably wasn’t a day older than 12 and he had a comprehensive definition of inertia. A property of matter and this kid knew pretty much what it is. I grew up watching Mr Wizard and loved it. Still do
I'm sure he studied up on it before the show to save production time. Kids are pretty smart today with operating electronics, and they learn arithmetic a more complicated way (why I don't know), plus they're have in the back of their minds some kid entering their school with an AR-15 to possibly kill them. Being a kid today, and even an adult is pretty difficult today. In 1962 we didn't have a former president as a traitor too.
@@interstategar You shouldn't talk about Obama like that. If you're interested in traitors, take a look at the current resident of the White House. He's been taking foreign money for years.
@@interstategar re: "Kids are pretty smart today with operating electronics"
Not quite, they are smart with using Apps.
@@interstategarThe chances of kids dying in school from "some kid entering their school with an AR-15" to kill them are extremely remote. They have a higher chance of drowning. You're engaging in hysteria, and the "former president" was no more a "traitor" than the people falsely accusing him of being a Russian puppet for four years.
Although the first seat belt patent was granted in 1885 in New York, seat belts weren't required equipment on vehicles until 1968 (6 years after this episode aired). Prior to 1968, only a handful of companies offered seat belts, usually as an extra-cost option. Ford offered seat belts as an option for $9 and reported a mere 2% customer acceptance rate. Seat belt use laws didn't begin until 1984, 99 years after that initial patent was granted.
I had no clue that 80s Mr. wizard was once an early 60s Mr. wizard.
I watched him in the fifties and I'm pretty sure the show originated in Chicago:
Wikipedia: Watch Mr. Wizard first aired on NBC on March 3, 1951, with Don Herbert as the title character. In the weekly half-hour live television show, Herbert played a science hobbyist and every Saturday morning a neighbor would come to visit."
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He didn't mention that inertia is a property of mass and that it is a resistance or opposition to acceleration.. this is also why we have Newton's third law. The inertia resists your push and you can view that as it is pushing back on you.
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When he put the bricks on the skate, he was actually confusing the starting friction with inertia. However, the effect is rather similar.
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It's very good that he mentions that the tablecloths should be smooth and also have no hem. The hem is really important.no-hen is really important.
Is it just me or is the audio really bad? I mean there is a really bad echo effect that makes it hard to listen to.
I was looking for a comment like this. Glad it isn't just my equipment.
Sounded like it was dubbed through an old spring reverb
I didn't watch this show much, at 14 years of age (in 1962) I felt this was kids stuff as I was already making working rockets using KNO3 & sugar for fuel. You heated them in a stainless steel pan until they melted together & poured them molten hot into your rocket tube.
This is how civilized ppl behaved like before social media and tik tok 😢
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