Westel type 51A television control unit
date: label: date made
content: 1932
label: associated date
content: 1931 - 1937
name: label: maker
content: Western Television Corp.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Manufacture: Western television corp. Used by W9XK, University of Iowa. Tall, black-painted metal rectangular casing with dials, switches. Donor reported: "This equipment was operated from 1932 to 1939 to broadcast a total of 389 educational television programs." See <i>Pioneering in Educational Television</i>, 32-35, 45.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from the State University of Iowa, thru E. B. Kurtz
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.318213.3.1
label: catalog number
content: 318213.3
label: accession number
content: 229310
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Control Unit
label: Object Name
content: television component
label: Object Name
content: mechanical television component
label: Other Terms
content: Control Unit; Television
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 78 in x 21 in x 22 1/2 in; 198.12 cm x 53.34 cm x 57.15 cm