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Scanning Disk Television
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Western Television
(back view)
Western Television scanning disk TV
(triple-interlaced 45 line format)
Western Television "Empire" in central states
From Western Television's book,
"Television, The New Industrial Miracle"
W9XK TV ID Card
W9XK was the callsign of the scanning disk television station
at University of Iowa, Iowa City, in 1930. This was likely the first educational
television station in the United States.
(An orange tint results from the neon kino tube.)
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