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Phillip Riggs

Phillip Riggs

Astronomy Professor Phillip Riggs at the Drake University Municipal Observatory.
Phillip Riggs

Phillip Riggs

Drake University Astronomy Professor Phillip Riggs.
E.B. Kurtz and J.L. Potter in front of television transmitter, The University of Iowa, 1933

E.B. Kurtz and J.L. Potter in front of television transmitter, The University of Iowa, 1933

View of television transmitter for W9XK. Transmitter operated on 2050 kilocycles or a wave length of 146 meters. Pictured at left is Prof. E.B. Kurtz, head of the Electrical Engineering Department, holding a transmitter tube, and J.L. Potter,…
E.G. Blackstone writing shorthand, The University of Iowa, 1933

E.G. Blackstone writing shorthand, The University of Iowa, 1933

Prof. E.G. Blackstone of the College of Commerce, giving an illustrated lecture on shorthand, broadcast on W9XK, 1933. Note microphone to pick up sound and photoelectric cells on left to pick up picture.
Art instructor Aden Arnold of the Plastic and Graphics Arts Department sketches a portrait during the course of his lecture on W9XK television, The University of Iowa, 1933

Art instructor Aden Arnold of the Plastic and Graphics Arts Department sketches a portrait during the course of his lecture on W9XK television, The University of Iowa, 1933

There is a sound microphone in the right corner and photoelectric cells behind him.
Ray C. Kent standing behind camera, The University of Iowa, 1941

Ray C. Kent standing behind camera, The University of Iowa, 1941

Television camera employing Iconoscope. Electrical engineering instructor Ray C. Kent is focusing W9XUI camera by adjusting large portrait lens, 1941.
Edwin B. Kurtz obituary, January 20, 1978

Edwin B. Kurtz obituary, January 20, 1978

Edwin B. Kurtz was born 1894, died Jan. 14, 1978.
E.B. Kurtz, The University of Iowa, ca. 1930s

E.B. Kurtz, The University of Iowa, ca. 1930s

Prof. E.B. Kurtz, head of the Dept. of Electrical Engineering. He, along with radio station WSUI manager Carl Menzer, were largely responsible for the development of experimental television broadcasting during the 1930's at UI.
"W9XK, first licensed visual station west of Mississippi, to expand program in 1935" [p. 1], ca. 1934

"W9XK, first licensed visual station west of Mississippi, to expand program in 1935" [p. 1], ca. 1934

Newspaper article which recounts the first public demonstration of W9XK in early 1933, plans for current and future programming.
Drake University

Drake University

Various views of Drake University as it appeared in 1904. Prominent in many of the images is Old Main, built in 1883. The Medical Building was built in 1904. It was located downtown, on Center Street, on land that is now used by Hy-Vee Hall. Science…
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