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    The cathode-ray tube amusement device is the earliest known interactive electronic game as well as the first game to incorporate an electronic display...
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    A cathode-ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing one or more electron guns, which emit electron beams that are manipulated to display images on a...
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  • of "video game" used. Following the 1947 invention of the cathode-ray tube amusement device—the earliest known interactive electronic game as well as...
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  • appeared only three years after the 1947 invention of the cathode-ray tube amusement device, the earliest known interactive electronic game to use an...
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  • was an American television pioneer, the co-inventor of the cathode-ray tube amusement device, and a professor of physics at Furman University. Goldsmith...
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    appeared only four years after the 1947 invention of the cathode-ray tube amusement device, the earliest known interactive electronic game to use an...
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    include the 1947 cathode-ray tube amusement device, the earliest known interactive electronic game, though it did not run on a computing device; the 1950 Bertie...
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  • Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann file a United States patent request for an invention described as a "cathode-ray tube amusement device", probably the first...
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    [page needed] US 2455992, Goldsmith Jr., Thomas T. & Mann, Estle Ray, "Cathode-ray tube amusement device", published 1948-12-14, assigned to Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories...
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    interactive electronic devices with various display formats. The earliest example is from 1947—a "cathode-ray tube amusement device" was filed for a patent...
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  • 1948 – Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann are granted a patent for their cathode-ray tube amusement device, the earliest known interactive electronic...
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    Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann filed a patent for a "cathode ray tube amusement device". Their game, which uses a cathode ray tube hooked to an oscilloscope...
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  • The first electronic game, in fact, is often cited to be Cathode-Ray Tube Amusement Device (1947) a decidedly visual game. Despite the difficulties in...
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  • adopted. 1947 – Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game. 1949 – The first Emmy Awards...
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    popular consumer product after World War II in electronic form, using cathode ray tube (CRT) technology. The addition of color to broadcast television after...
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    221,374: X-ray projection device U.S. patent 2,263,032: Cold cathode electron discharge tube U.S. patent 3,258,402: Electric discharge device for producing...
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    occurs as each scan line is prepared for the video output device, such as a cathode-ray tube, without involvement of the main CPU and without the need...
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  • internal interfaces of digital pixel displays. LCDs, different from cathode ray tube (CRT) displays, have to use digital signaling to show each pixel. While...
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    identified as "Roentgen rays" or "X-rays"). His early experiments were with Crookes tubes, a cold cathode electrical discharge tube. Tesla may have inadvertently...
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    S. 1952 – opens Cathode Ray Tube facility in Horseheads, New York; facility housed three divisions: Cathode Ray Tube, Electronic Tube, and Industrial...
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    use flat panel displays instead of cathode-ray tubes. Internet services such as ALL.Net, NESiCAxLive, e-Amusement and NESYS, allow the cabinets to download...
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  • a "pixel-perfect" resolution and a style emulating the look of a cathode ray tube television. Super Mario Bros. has been re-released for several of Nintendo's...
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    displayed graphics with a plotter. The Wang 2200 of 1973 had a full-size cathode-ray tube (CRT) and cassette tape storage. The IBM 5100 in 1975 had a small CRT...
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    and Corning, which was established in 1973 to manufacture and market cathode ray tube glass for black and white televisions. The company's first LCD glass...
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    pioneered a variety of 3D television systems using electro-mechanical and cathode-ray tube techniques. The first 3D TV was produced in 1935, and stereoscopic...
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    cloud-based gaming system is one of the first cloud gaming services. Cathode ray tube-based display units had begun to phase out in the 2000s, replaced by...
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    unclear, and a maximum number of 25 was estimated. The use of X-ray spectra (obtained by X-ray crystallography) by Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley made it possible...
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    who own Elddis, make caravans at Delves. The LG Philips Displays cathode ray tube factory at Carrville, Durham was the second largest employer in the...
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    market in 1959. – Aichi Prefecture No. 93: CRT Funnel Pressing Machine. Cathode ray tube of television production in Japan started under technical license from...
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  • telerecording a recording of a live television broadcast made directly from a cathode ray tube onto motion picture film. The equivalent US term is kinescope. telly...
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