REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – The lone conventional television set at Anderson's TV store sat along a side wall like a castoff. Its screen was dark as dozens of other gleaming flat-panel and big-screen ...

It might be too soon to consider the innards of the old CRT monitor at the back of your closet to be something worth putting on display in your home or workshop. For that curio cabinet-worthy appeal, ...

Flat panel TVs have spoiled us. It used to be that a big display took up a lot of room on your desk or living room because of the depth of the CRT’s electron gun. We wonder what the designers of the ...

1910 Boris Rosing is granted a Russian patent for his cathode-ray tube, the technology found in most TVs today. 1925 Ventriloquist dummy Stooky Bill makes his on-screen debut in the first successful ...

Dim lights in order to make the electron beam more visible. Wire up the heater and accelerator contacts (and also deflector contacts, if desired) on the tube to the power supply (or supplies). If ...

When I was a kid, all we had were the fat TVs that were stuffed with cathode ray tubes. I can recall my grandmother having a really old TV that you had to turn on and wait until the cathode tubes ...

The cathode ray tube is dead. “Rust in peace,” ministered the New York Times in its 2009 catalogue of obsolescence for the aughts. The obvious play on words conjoins an industrial mythos with a ...

No doubt, 2006 was the year of the flat-screen display, as LCD, plasma and projection screens dominated the consumer market. The CRT, which had served us well for 50 years, is now a dinosaur. Our ...