cathode-ray tube
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Maybe the youths’ next analog status symbol could be a cathode-ray tube.
From Slate ● May 3, 2026
Philo Farnsworth in the U.S. used the cathode-ray tube in his system, which became the standard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
The series’ American and local Thai crew worked together to go through “Alien” frame by frame to recreate that specific retro-futuristic look for the Maginot, complete with tactile hulls and cathode-ray tube screens.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2025
Certainly, television — in the ad-supported, cathode-ray tube age — was an imperfect medium for watching theatrical features.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
Then the cathode-ray tube glowed like an imitation, feeble TV image; a collage formed, made of apparently random colors, trails, and configurations which, until the handles were grasped, amounted to nothing.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
“Are we doing retro-futurism? Are we doing the the cathode ray tube screens? Are we doing all of that stuff that in 1979 felt super futuristic, and to us now, feels like 1979?” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2025
“It’ll come sooner,” he said, standing between the computers controlling the sluice gates and an old cathode ray tube TV set.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2021
Thomson’s cathode ray tube showed that atoms contain small, negatively charged particles called electrons.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Behind a nondescript Manhattan storefront, Chi-Tien Lui is stockpiling objects many people wouldn’t think twice about trashing: cathode ray tube televisions.
From The Verge ● Feb. 6, 2018
This display uses a five inch, high resolution cathode ray tube.
From Preliminary Specifications: Programmed Data Processor Model Three (PDP-3) October, 1960 by Digital Equipment Corporation
