Screenshot from the "Look to the Stars" episode of Bonanza. One of the Cartwrights is helping a young Albert Michelson with his apparatus to measure the speed of light.

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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 16:12:36 UTC Robert McNees

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   Michelson was born in Prussia but moved to the US at a young age. He grew up in little mining towns across California and Nevada.

   In Nevada they lived in Virginia City, which was the setting for the TV show “Bonanza.” This was too good for the writers to pass up!

   In the episode “Look to the Stars,” a young Michelson performs various experiments and measures the speed of light. The plot involves the Cartwrights helping him gain admission to the US Naval Academy.