Title
Physics, metric system, 1975, photo 3
Description
This image shows Professor Thomas Rokoske of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Appalachian State University (1967-current) sitting with another man on a television set for a program promoting the metric system on WLOS-TV ABC Channel 13 in Asheville, NC, in 1975. The Department of Physics and Astronomy is in the College of Arts and Sciences and maintains the Rankin Science Observatory in Rankin Science Hall, built 1963, and the Dark Sky Observatory, opened 1981, twenty miles northeast of Boone, NC. The Department offers an undergraduate degrees in applied physics and graduate degrees in engineering physics, as well as courses in industrial, chemical, computational, environmental, medical, and radiation safety physics.
Source
General Picture Files, 2004.040, Box 14, Physics and Astronomy F2, C14.2.3.2.
Comments
Tom Rokoske
line 2 should read the following:
... with the moderator of a Public Affairs program which was promoting the use of the metric ...