1 . He dissemble with Nancy Reagan(then Nancy Davis ) in 1940 as an actor at the Coach House summertime field of operations .
2 . After summer theater he make up one’s mind to go pro- when he graduated LaCrosse State Teacher ’s College in Wisconsin in 1940 , he headed to NYC to engage a career on Broadway .
3 . His Broadway dreaming were interruptedwhen WWII happened and he decided to serve his country as a common soldier in the Army Air Forces . He was a B-24 bomber pilot burner and flew 56 mission . By the metre he was discharged in 1945 , he was a Captain and had remove the Distinguished Flying Cross .
4 . Although a lot of us probably bed him fromMr . Wizard ’s World , the idea really started with a 1951 T.V. show calledWatch Mr. Wizard . Among other prestigious awards , the show won a Peabody and three Thomas Alva Edison National Mass Media Awards .
5 . Don Herbert and his married woman developed a move around gathering programfeaturing young performers teach pupil about science . It ’s estimate that the show was present to about 1.2 million students every twelvemonth .
6 . Some of Mr. Wizard ’s shows includedteaching kid why cakes rise , how to cook a hot firedog by electrocuting it and picture how centrifugal power work by using a pail of piddle .
7 . He took notes on every experimentand never threw them out - he ended up with at least 18 cabinets full of note .
8 . He was a fairly frequent Edgar Albert Guest on Hollywood Squaresduring the 1986 season . I so would have telephone on Mr. Wizard - you recognise he get it on his stuff and nonsense .
9 . You know the Diet Coke and Mentos geyser?The man responsible for the 18 - understructure record , Steve Spangler , was inspired to originate his career in skill by none other than Mr. Wizard .
10 . The educational showBeakman ’s Worldhad a little homage to Mr. Wizard : the two penguin puppets on the show were named Don and Herb .
