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Classroom use of the Picturephone, 1973

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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

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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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Picturephone equipment, 1973

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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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Dr. Paul Torda, ca. 1960s

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Year: 1960 to 1969
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Description Photograph of Dr. T. Pail Torda. Dr. Torda was Director of Armour Research Foundation's fluid dynamics and propulsion research division from 1959 until 1962. He joined the Illinois Tech faculty in 1962 as a professor of mechanical engineering, at which time he remained an ARF consultant. Torda helped to design the Blue Flame, which held the land speed record from 1972 to 1980, and was… more
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