Word: tron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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COLOR TV SETS with 19-in. tubes will soon be on the market for less than $1,000. Columbia Broadcasting System is now making its new "Color-tron 205" picture tube, the first color tube to be mass-produced. A CBS-Hytron plant will be turning out 10,000 tubes a month by September for Motorola (which will use the tube in its new $895 and $995 sets), Sears Roebuck, and CBS's own sets...
...company to do the billing. But now Phonevision has several alternate methods. One uses the coin box; another uses a gadget which would unscramble the TV picture when set to the right combination. Cards with the combination would be sold for each show by dealers or vending machines. Skia-tron Electronics & Television Corp.'s Subscriber-Vision works by means of punched decoding cards inserted into a device...
Kerst is also the betatron's christener. At first he thought of calling it the "Ausserordentlichhochges chwindigkeit-electronenentwickelndesschwerab eitsbei-gollitron," German for "extraordinarily high-speed electron generator, hard work by golly-tron." He settled for "Betatron," from beta particle (high-speed electron...