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In 1941 Raymond H. Abel, a UI graduate student in speech and theatre arts, wrote his master's thesis, A Project and Preliminary Investigation of Problems Involved in Producing a Play for Television. The thesis recounted his experience directing a UI…

Seeking permission to travel to Chicago to meet with Western Television Corporation officials about project.

Requesting permission for Prof. E.B. Kurtz, College of Engineering, to meet with Chicago engineers concerning television broadcasting equipment needs.

Letter, with memorandum, concerns funding to continue television service.

Example of an inquiry from the public about the UI's experimental television broadcasting service.

Rood, a professor of engineering, expressed skepticism of plans for an experimental television station at the University of Iowa, in this letter addressed to Carl Menzer, manager of radio station WSUI.

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

Newspaper article on technical status of television broadcasting.

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

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.