Courtney Sovinec examines the multi-patterned target used to create a new type of X-ray image at Sandia National Laboratories. (Image by Vince ...

When German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays in the late 1800s while experimenting with cathode ray tubes, it was a breakthrough that transformed science and medicine. So much so that the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...