16814 WESTINGHOUSE COIN-OPERATED DRY CLEANING & WESTINGHOUSE SCIENCE TALENT SEARCH SCIENCE FAIR

This short film begins with an ad for the Westinghouse coin operated dry cleaning machine, which was featured in laundromats in the early 1960s. Unfortunately the dry cleaning chemicals that were used turned out to be hazardous and not environmentally friendly, and the deployment of the machines was short lived.

At 1:44 another Westinghouse commercial presents some of the finalists of the 1962 Westinghouse Science Talent Search. At 2:00 Barry Cook explains his robot called Prometheus which was powered by a sewing machine motor and directed by coffee machine solenoids. At 2:32, Lewis Haberly discusses his experiment to determine if fish can hear. At 3:09 Donna Hayes discusses atomic energy and shows off her Van De Graaf generator. At 3:32 Mitchell Fruitstone discusses the drug Interferon and its use against herpes simplex.

Here’s a brief history of this event: While attending the 1939 New York World’s Fair, G. Edward Pendray, a Westinghouse executive, and Watson Davis, director of Science Service (now Society for Science & the Public) began discussing ways to encourage more students to pursue science careers. They decided on a national competition – Westinghouse agreed to provide prize money and cover administrative costs and Science Service took on the task of running it. In 1998, Intel Corporation became the title sponsor of the competition, continuing what has become an American institution designed to encourage young people to pursue careers in science, math, engineering and medicine. In 2016, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals became the next sponsor to carry on the Science Talent Search.

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