https://www.iowaheritage.org/items/browse/page/3?collection=35&output=atom <![CDATA[Iowa Heritage Digital Collections]]> 2024-03-28T20:50:20+00:00 Omeka https://www.iowaheritage.org/items/show/19172 <![CDATA[E.B. Kurtz adjusting telecasting equipment, The University of Iowa, 1930s]]> 2014-11-25T07:51:07+00:00

Title

E.B. Kurtz adjusting telecasting equipment, The University of Iowa, 1930s

Description

An over-all view of W9XK's telecasting equipment, showing scanning unit (at left) and amplifier-monitor panel. Handles on scanner are used to direct scanning beam on object in studio on other side of the wall. Prof. E.B. Kurtz, head of the Electrical Engineering Department, is shown adjusting the quality of the outgoing signal. At far left, in the studio, is the call-letters sign identifying W9XK which was used at the beginning and end of each broadcast.

Publisher

University of Iowa. University Archives

Date

1930/1939
2008-05-15

Rights

Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital object. Commercial use or distribution of the object is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.

Relation

W9XK Experimental Television at Iowa
F.W. Kent Photographs: Colleges and Departments
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/archives/guides
Engineering, miscellaneous view sub-folder

Format

jpeg

Type

Still image
Photographs

Identifier

w9xk035_1932.jpg
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/
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https://www.iowaheritage.org/items/show/19169 <![CDATA[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]]> 2014-11-25T07:51:07+00:00

Title

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

Description

There is a sound microphone in the right corner and photoelectric cells behind him.

Publisher

University of Iowa. University Archives

Date

2008-05-15

Rights

Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital object. Commercial use or distribution of the object is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.

Relation

W9XK Experimental Television at Iowa
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/archives/guides
Engineering, miscellaneous view sub-folder

Format

jpeg

Type

Still image
Photographs

Identifier

w9xk034_1933.jpg
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/
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https://www.iowaheritage.org/items/show/19166 <![CDATA[Ray C. Kent standing behind camera, The University of Iowa, 1941]]> 2014-11-25T07:51:07+00:00

Title

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

Description

Television camera employing Iconoscope. Electrical engineering instructor Ray C. Kent is focusing W9XUI camera by adjusting large portrait lens, 1941.

Publisher

University of Iowa. University Archives

Date

1941
2008-05-15

Rights

Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital object. Commercial use or distribution of the object is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.

Relation

W9XK Experimental Television at Iowa
F.W. Kent Photographs: Colleges and Departments
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/archives/guides
Engineering, miscellaneous view sub-folder

Format

jpeg

Type

Still image
Photographs

Identifier

w9xk033_1941.jpg
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/
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https://www.iowaheritage.org/items/show/19163 <![CDATA[E.M. Lonsdale working on television equipment, The University of Iowa, 1941]]> 2014-11-25T07:51:07+00:00

Title

E.M. Lonsdale working on television equipment, The University of Iowa, 1941

Description

E.M. Lonsdale making adjustments on monitor panel in W9XUI television broadcasting studio, 1941.

Publisher

University of Iowa. University Archives

Date

1941
2008-05-15

Rights

Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital object. Commercial use or distribution of the object is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.

Relation

W9XK Experimental Television at Iowa
F.W. Kent Photographs: Colleges and Departments
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/archives/guides
Engineering

Format

jpeg

Type

Still image
Photographs

Identifier

w9xk032_1941.jpg
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/
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https://www.iowaheritage.org/items/show/19160 <![CDATA[Entrance door to W9XK television studio, The University of Iowa, 1930s]]> 2014-11-25T07:51:07+00:00

Title

Entrance door to W9XK television studio, The University of Iowa, 1930s

Description

Entrance to the W9XK television studio, Electrical Engineering Building, northeast corner of Iowa Avenue and Dubuque St., Iowa City, Iowa, 1930s.

Publisher

University of Iowa. University Archives

Date

1930/1939
2008-05-15

Rights

Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital object. Commercial use or distribution of the object is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.

Relation

W9XK Experimental Television at Iowa
F.W. Kent Photographs: Colleges and Departments
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/archives/guides
Engineering

Format

jpeg

Type

Still image
Photographs

Identifier

w9xk031_1930.jpg
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/
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https://www.iowaheritage.org/items/show/19157 <![CDATA[Television equipment: bank of photoelectric cells, The University of Iowa, 1933]]> 2014-11-25T07:51:07+00:00

Title

Television equipment: bank of photoelectric cells, The University of Iowa, 1933

Description

Prof. E.B. Kurtz, head of the Dept. of Electrical engineering, looking through a bank of ten photoelectric cells mounted in frame for use at W9XK studio, 1933.

Publisher

Iowa Transit (Iowa City, Iowa)
University of Iowa. University Archives

Date

1933
2008-05-15

Rights

Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital object. Commercial use or distribution of the object is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.

Relation

W9XK Experimental Television at Iowa
F.W. Kent Photographs: Colleges and Departments
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/archives/guides
Engineering

Format

jpeg

Type

Still image
Photographs

Identifier

w9xk030_1930.jpg
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/
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https://www.iowaheritage.org/items/show/19154 <![CDATA[E.B. Kurtz tuning a television receiving set at W9XK television station, The University of Iowa, ca. 1933]]> 2014-11-25T07:51:07+00:00

Title

E.B. Kurtz tuning a television receiving set at W9XK television station, The University of Iowa, ca. 1933

Description

Prof. E.B. Kurtz, head of the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, adjusting a television receiving set manufactured by Echophone Company. Echophone manufactured sets that were capable of receiving the W9XK signal.

Publisher

University of Iowa. University Archives

Date

1933
2008-05-15

Rights

Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital object. Commercial use or distribution of the object is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.

Relation

W9XK Experimental Television at Iowa
F.W. Kent Photographs: Colleges and Departments
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/archives/guides
Engineering

Format

jpeg

Type

Still image
Photographs

Identifier

w9xk029_1930.jpg
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/
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https://www.iowaheritage.org/items/show/19151 <![CDATA[Edwin B. Kurtz obituary, January 20, 1978]]> 2014-11-25T07:51:07+00:00

Title

Edwin B. Kurtz obituary, January 20, 1978

Description

Edwin B. Kurtz was born 1894, died Jan. 14, 1978.

Publisher

Iowa City Press Citizen
University of Iowa. University Archives

Date

2008-05-15

Rights

Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital object. Commercial use or distribution of the object is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.

Relation

W9XK Experimental Television at Iowa
Faculty and Staff Vertical Files
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/archives/guides
"Kurtz, E.B."

Format

jpeg

Type

Text; Still image
Clippings; Photographs; Obituaries

Identifier

w9xk028_1978-01-20.jpg
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/
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https://www.iowaheritage.org/items/show/19148 <![CDATA["W9XUI produces television program of dramatic skits," May 16, 1941]]> 2014-11-25T07:51:07+00:00

Title

"W9XUI produces television program of dramatic skits," May 16, 1941

Description

Description of programming and names of students and staff involved with production.

Creator

Noble, Bob

Publisher

Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa)
University of Iowa. University Archives

Date

1941-05-16
2008-05-15

Rights

Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital object. Commercial use or distribution of the object is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.

Relation

W9XK Experimental Television at Iowa
Subject Vertical Files: Television
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/archives/guides
1930s and 1940s, folder 2

Format

jpeg

Type

Text
Clippings

Identifier

RG01.15.05
w9xk027_1941-05-16.jpg
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/
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https://www.iowaheritage.org/items/show/19145 <![CDATA["SUI to broadcast more detailed pictures," July 25, 1940]]> 2014-11-25T07:51:07+00:00

Title

"SUI to broadcast more detailed pictures," July 25, 1940

Description

Report on newly-licensed W9XUI, broadcasting on VHF television band.

Publisher

Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa)
University of Iowa. University Archives

Date

1940-07-25
2008-05-15

Rights

Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital object. Commercial use or distribution of the object is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.

Relation

W9XK Experimental Television at Iowa
Subject Vertical Files: Television
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/archives/guides
1930s and 1940s, folder 2

Format

jpeg

Type

Text; Still image
Clippings; Photographs

Identifier

RG01.15.05
w9xk026.jpg
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/
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