{"id":"v4sdb29","internal_id":"dcaa3341-55e1-44b1-aab8-351c217b712a","links":{"img_thumbnail":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/downloads/deriv/gdfwqii/thumb_large_2X?disposition=inline","html_self":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/v4sdb29"},"title":"Combustion","additional_title":[],"format":["moving_image"],"genre":["Video Recordings"],"medium":["VHS"],"extent":["32M 45S"],"language":[],"provenance":"","subject":["Combustion","Chemical reactions","Educational films"],"department":"Archives","series_arrangement":[],"rights":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/","rights_holder":"","digitization_funder":"","file_creator":"Myers, Emmett","description":"\"Combustion\" 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, \"Combustion\" teaches viewers how combustion works, and shows how different fuels burn and what products are formed during the process.","description_html":"<p>\"Combustion\" is one of fifty-three short educational films originally produced in 1955 for KQED San Francisco as part of the series <i>Tempest in a Test Tube</i>. 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, \"Combustion\" teaches viewers how combustion works, and shows how different fuels burn and what products are formed during the process.</p>","published_at":"2026-05-11T19:07:49Z","updated_at":"2026-05-11T19:07:49Z","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}