October 19, 1923
Local Washington, D.C., radio station WRC, owned by the Radio Corporation of America, begins broadcasting a series of talks on the Smithsonian Institution and its branches. These talks are so popular that a series on scientific subjects is planned. The scientific progam begins on April 9, 1924 with Austin H. Clark’s talk “The Giants of the Animal World.” The series runs for more than four years.
Posted: 19 October 2010
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