Cover art sketch for Energy and Power, by Leonard Everett Fisher, circa 1958.
Cover art sketch for Energy and Power, by Leonard Everett Fisher, circa 1958.
Description:
Authors who worked on children’s science books came from a variety of backgrounds, including blacklisted New York City school teacher Irving Adler (1913–2012). In 1958, Adler (under the pen name Robert Irving) published Energy and Power, a general juvenile physics text on energy that also describes the potential uses for nuclear energy in space travel. The cover of this post-Sputnik work features visual representations and allusions to space and nuclear power created by illustrator Leonard Everett Fisher.
Attribution:
Leonard Everett Fisher papers, Ax 538, Box 4.2, Folder 22.