Joseph T. Tykociner Papers, 1900-69 | University of Illinois Archives

Papers of Joseph T. Tykociner (1877-1969), professor of electrical engineering (1921-49); professor emeritus (1949-69), including awards; photographs of relatives and research experiments; newspaper clippings; autobiographical and biographical data; bibliography cards; personal and research diaries (1926-63); technical letters concerning engineering research at Illinois (1926-46); student theses; abstracts, reprints and Experiment Station Bulletins; research and family slides; charts; tape recordings on zetetics and research; lectures; sound on film demonstration (1921-32); financial records and sound on film patent cases. Research material includes sound on film (1921-22), antennae models (1922-26), cable investigations (1926-33), velocity selector (1927-36), photoelectric research (1922-25, 1935-41), ultra-high frequencies and millimeter wave research (1941-51), striations (1952-59) and zetetics (1949-69). Correspondence with relatives, colleagues, students, publishing companies and industrial firms, regarding Jews living in Europe and Palestine and immigration before and after World War II, personal matters, research information, preparation of doctoral theses, recommendations, and purchasing of supplies and publications.

The series includes a negative 35mm motion picture film of Prof. Tykociner's 1921-22 sound on film demonstration, as well as an audio recording of a 1967 interview.