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

It wasn’t until 1895 that a physicist named Wilhelm Röntgen tried something new: He put the hand of his wife, Anna, between a cathode-ray tube and a photographic plate.

From New York Times

Certainly, television — in the ad-supported, cathode-ray tube age — was an imperfect medium for watching theatrical features.

From Los Angeles Times

A huge great buzzing cathode-ray tube that takes five minutes to warm up and generates enough static to hoover all the dead skin cells out of a surrounding arc of carpet.

From The Guardian

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 Literature