cathode-ray tube

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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

Figure 30.7 shows a cathode-ray tube, which produces a narrow beam of electrons that passes through charging plates connected to a high-voltage power supply.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

That sparked a mass migration of consumers from using the old cathode-ray tube television sets to the thinner and lighter plasma and liquid-crystal displays.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2011

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