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Classroom use of the Picturephone, 1973
Year:
1973
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Description
Photograph of the Western Electric Picturephone used by IIT's Evening Division in interactive distance learning classes. Illinois Tech's Picturephone classes, the first in the country, debuted in 1974, offered to Bell employees in downtown Chicago and Oakbrook. Photographer unknown. more
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Demonstration of the Picturephone, 1973
Year:
1973
Contributors
Description
Photograph of the Western Electric Picturephone used by IIT's Evening Division in interactive distance learning classes. Illinois Tech's Picturephone classes, the first in the country, debuted in 1974, offered to Bell employees in downtown Chicago and Oakbrook. Photographer unknown. more
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Picturephone equipment, 1973
Year:
1973
Contributors
Description
Photograph of the Western Electric Picturephone used by IIT's Evening Division in interactive distance learning classes. Illinois Tech's Picturephone classes, the first in the country, debuted in 1974, offered to Bell employees in downtown Chicago and Oakbrook. Photographer unknown. more
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IIT/V
Year:
1976 to 1981
Contributors
Illinois Institute of Technology
Description
A promotional booklet for IIT/V (also known as IITV), one of the first televised course delivery services. IITV offered distance learning classes at the graduate and upper-division undergraduate levels to corporate and public audiences.
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The Blue Flame, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, 1970
Year:
1970
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Description
Transparency depicting the car known as the Blue Flame that set the land speed record on October 23, 1970 at Bonneville Flats, Utah. Powered by ignited liquefied natural gas, the car was conceived by Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute colleagues Dick Keller and Ray Dausman and constructed by Reaction Dynamics, Inc. in Milwaukee. Henry R. Linden, then President of the Institute of… more
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