{"id":"brznlrt","internal_id":"e6afa9cd-779b-431a-91c4-7a10cf6767fe","links":{"img_thumbnail":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/downloads/deriv/y16fav8/thumb_large_2X?disposition=inline","html_self":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/brznlrt"},"title":"Atmosphere Around Us","additional_title":[],"format":["moving_image"],"genre":["Video Recordings"],"medium":["VHS"],"extent":["32M 40S"],"language":["English"],"provenance":"","subject":["Atmosphere","Air pressure"],"department":"Archives","series_arrangement":[],"rights":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/","rights_holder":"","digitization_funder":"","file_creator":"Myers, Emmett","description":"“The Atmosphere Around Us\" is one of fifty-three short educational films originally produced in 1955 for KQED San Francisco as part of the series Tempest in a Test Tube. This series of half-hour episodes illustrates basic chemistry concepts for high school students through live experiments and demonstrations by presenter Dr. Harry Sello. The experiments used in the show were designed by the American Chemical Society’s California chapter and reflect the safety standards of the time. This episode, “The Atmosphere Around Us,” teaches viewers how and why air pressure exists and how it affects the behaviour of materials.","description_html":"<p>“The Atmosphere Around Us\" is one of fifty-three short educational films originally produced in 1955 for KQED San Francisco as part of the series Tempest in a Test Tube. This series of half-hour episodes illustrates basic chemistry concepts for high school students through live experiments and demonstrations by presenter Dr. Harry Sello. The experiments used in the show were designed by the American Chemical Society’s California chapter and reflect the safety standards of the time. This episode, “The Atmosphere Around Us,” teaches viewers how and why air pressure exists and how it affects the behaviour of materials.</p>","published_at":"2026-04-23T15:11:20Z","updated_at":"2026-04-23T15:11:20Z","creator":[{"category":"creator_of_work","value":"American Chemical Society"},{"category":"creator_of_work","value":"KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)"}],"date_of_work":[{"start":"1987","start_qualifier":"circa","finish":"","finish_qualifier":"","note":"","formatted":"Circa 1987"}],"place":[{"category":"place_of_creation","value":"California--San Francisco"}],"inscription":[],"related_link":[],"additional_credit":[],"physical_container":null}