Joint session of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers [sound recording] : History of physics ; 1974 February 6.

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Joint session of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers [sound recording] : History of physics ; 1974 February 6.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80954865

Speakers include: Martin J. Klein, "Carnot's Principle, the Second Law, and the Development of Physical Thought;" David M. Dennison, "Recollections of Physics and of Physicists in the 1920s;" and R. G. Sachs, "The Postwar Transition: Development of the National Laboratories." Presiding was Kenneth W. Ford.

2 sound tape reels (2.5 hrs.) : 3 3/4 ips, analog, mono. ; 7 in.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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