We all love a good success story. The triumph, the glory, the moment when everything clicks into place.But here's the thing: some of the most groundbreaking discoveries in human history started with ...

In November 1895, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X-rays when a fluorescent screen glowed in his darkened laboratory. He meticulously investigated these invisible rays, which could ...

John Logie Baird circa 1925 in an early test of televising two ventriloquist dolls using his transmitting apparatus from the 1927 book Television for the Home. (see this blog for more on the book).

If you're a classic collector, you might've been lucky enough to snag yourself one of those old retro TVs, a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube). The tech has been around for over a century, having been invented ...

The cathode ray tube amusement device is the earliest known interactive electronic game to use a cathode ray tube (CRT). It is a device that records and controls the quality of an electronic signal.

Wilhelm Röntgen’s discovery of X-rays was a serendipitous breakthrough during cathode ray tube experiments, forever changing medical diagnostics and enabling non-invasive internal imaging that today ...

Sandia scientists developed a new type of X-ray that uses patterned multi-metal targets to create colorized, high-resolution images. The technology promises sharper scans, better material detection, ...

Dark matter, a type of matter that does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, is predicted to account for most of the universe's mass. While theoretical predictions hint at its abundance, detecting this ...

Click to open image viewer. Replicas of Cavendish Lab. Apparatus (5, l. to r.); obj. ID no. EM.N-08013-A Thompson's cathode ray tube #2, EM.318206 Thompson's cathode ray tube #3, EM.N-08019 Rutherford ...

The TV landscape is now dominated by sleek displays powered by LED, OLED, and QLED technologies, and yes, OLED and QLED are two distinct technologies. However, CRT TVs were the dominant display ...