The ‘CRT Effect’ myth says that the reason why pixel art of old games looked so much better is due to the smoothing and blending effects of cathode-ray tube (CRT) displays, which were everywhere until ...

The members of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia took their seats for their annual meeting last week in an atmosphere of ill-concealed excitement. Weeks before, the committee on awards had ...

The Nobel Prize, which is awarded to those who “have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind”, is presented across a number of categories. Even though it recognises specific work done by people, ...

Perhaps nothing added quite so much to the charm of vacuum tube circuits from back in the heyday of the vacuum tube as did the “Magic Eye” indicating tube. With the ghostly green glow of its circular ...

THIS book was first published in 1937 under the title “The Low Voltage Cathode Ray Tube”, which was somewhat misleading in view of the fact that it deals with the various forms of cathode ray tube ...

In the last quarter of the 19th century, William Crooks discovered the visual effect cathode rays have inside a vacuum tube. A few years later Karl Ferdinand Braun and Jonathon Adolf Wilhelm Zenneck ...

APPLICATIONS of the sealed-off cathode-ray XX tube to the field of radio have been previously well treated, so the author gains by concentrating on other applications, which are shown to be wide and ...