{"id":"vap4s65","internal_id":"c845e418-46c2-45f0-8638-838e12e7ec84","links":{"img_thumbnail":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/downloads/deriv/nnm3n5a/thumb_large_2X?disposition=inline","html_self":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/vap4s65"},"title":"Electricity from Chemicals","additional_title":[],"format":["moving_image"],"genre":["Video Recordings"],"medium":["VHS"],"extent":["32M 38S"],"language":["English"],"provenance":"","subject":["Electricity","Electrochemistry","Electric batteries","Educational films"],"department":"Archives","series_arrangement":[],"rights":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/","rights_holder":"","digitization_funder":"","file_creator":"Myers, Emmett","description":"\"Electricity from Chemicals\" 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, “Electricity from Chemicals,” teaches viewers how batteries work and shows how chemical reactions between different materials can create electricity for practical use.","description_html":"<p>\"Electricity from Chemicals\" 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, “Electricity from Chemicals,” teaches viewers how batteries work and shows how chemical reactions between different materials can create electricity for practical use.</p>","published_at":"2026-05-04T14:55:20Z","updated_at":"2026-05-04T14:55:20Z","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_interview","value":"California--San Francisco"}],"inscription":[],"related_link":[],"additional_credit":[],"physical_container":null}