Essays Tagged: "Cathode ray tube"

First generation of computers

s called, was arevamped U.S. Navy project for developing an aircraft simulator. TheWhirlwind used a cathode ray tube and a light gun to provide interactively.The Whirlwind was linked to a series of ra ...

(1 pages) 40 0 3.4 Mar/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

The Atom

Period 2The AtomIn the spring of 1897 J.J. Thomson demonstrated that the beam of glowing matter ina cathode-ray tube was not made of light waves, as 'the almost unanimous opinion ofGerman physicists' ... an physicists' held. Rather, cathode rays were negatively charged particles boilingoff the negative cathode and attracted to the positive anode. These particles could bedeflected by an electric field ...

(6 pages) 69 0 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

CRT's vs. LCD's in Computer Displays

hear are as varied as the people you ask. Currently, the two most common display types are the CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) and LCD (Liquid Crystal Display). Both monitor types have specific advantages and ...

(3 pages) 73 0 3.7 Nov/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

This essay explores the effect that television (as a new media form) has on culture.

he way television works today. (World Book, 2002:125)In 1897 K.F. Braun of Germany had introduced a cathode-ray tube with a fluorescent screen; that is, a screen that produced visible light when struc ... pbell Swinton, who outlined a method that is the basis of modern television. He proposed the use of Cathode-ray tubes, which magnetically deflected, at both camera and receiver. Swinton's brilliant id ...

(9 pages) 529 2 4.9 Jun/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Television, what it is, how it works (in term of physics) and its impact on society, including advantages and disadvantages.

ted into sound in the speaker. After amplification the video signal passes into the picture tube, a cathode-ray tube that is the heart of the television receiver. Action begins as the cathode produces ... red phosphor dot, a blue phosphor dot, and a green phosphor dot. The electron beams from the three cathode-ray guns continuously scan the phosphor-dot plate. The guns are tilted so that the three bea ...

(5 pages) 97 0 4.5 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Plasma Telivision

the past 75 years, the vast majority of televisions have been built around the same technology: the cathode ray tube. The cathode ray tubes produce crisp, vibrant images which are bulky. In order to i ...

(4 pages) 71 1 3.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Influences of visual display terminals (VDTs) on its user.

homson "Eye problems and Visual Display Units - facts and the fallacies", the author discusses only Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) monitors, which were the most used monitors before Liquid Crystal Displays (L ... , M; Kondo, T; Sakakibara, H; Yamada, S., Do liquid crystal displays assure better readability than cathode-ray tubes? Japanese Journal of Hygiene

(2 pages) 23 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Charlie's angels movie review

sitting in the warming glow of Farah Fawcett-Majors, Jaclyn Smith and Kate Jackson coming from the cathode-ray tube, cursing God for not making me a girl. Charlie's Angels had a big impact on me. Alt ...

(2 pages) 38 2 4.4 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

What is a monitor?

mmands), photographs, computer rendered graphics, video, and animation.Most computer monitors use a cathode-ray tube (CRT) as the display device. A CRT is a glass tube that is narrow at one end and op ...

(3 pages) 30 0 5.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

History of television an its effects on soceity

n 1906 Boris Rosing would further the technology by combining it with the Audion vacuum tube, and a cathode ray tube to produce early methods of electronically scanning and reproducing images.In 1925 ...

(7 pages) 87 2 5.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Physics Lab Report

ly confusing part was defining the equation that we should use to evaluate the results.Equipment: 1 Cathode Ray Tube (with deflection plates and a graph on the end) 1 power supply Multiple connectors ... plates and a graph on the end) 1 power supply Multiple connectors Our group hooked up the cathode Ray Tube to the power supply with the connectors, and turned it on. The first time we did th ...

(2 pages) 17 0 0.0 Feb/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Compare and Contrast - Projection TV's

ategories of TV's, with some formats fitting into multiple categories. The current options are CRT (cathode ray tube), Wall mount Plasma and LCD, RPTV (Rear Projection) and Front Projection projector ...

(13 pages) 27 0 5.0 Aug/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Television Receiver: Sociological Impact

nvented by Philo Farnsworth in 1928. This TV was based on the same technology we utilize today, the cathode ray tube. In 1936, at the New York Worlds Fair, RCA Corporation demonstrated the first comme ...

(6 pages) 1597 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Virtual reality

isplays. Most computer graphics are shown on a monitor, or Video Display Terminal, in the form of a cathode-ray tube (CRT). Two display methods are typically used: raster-scan CRTs and vector CRTs. In ...

(6 pages) 47 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

The Impact of Television on the Film Industry

nd almost simultaneously developed in the 1920's and '30's. Utilizing such inventions as the German cathode-ray tube and the iconoscope, two American researchers invented the electronic television sys ... achines, video game machines, video cameras, monitors, oscilloscopes and radar displays all contain cathode-ray tubes; they operate based on a screen that emits a visible light when struck by a beam o ...

(8 pages) 41 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

The Effect of HDTV on the Music Industry

ffordability, efficiency, and size (Ou). CRT displays tend to be quite large due to the traditional cathode ray tube found inside the HDTV set, and can also consume more power than LCD and DLP display ...

(11 pages) 30 1 4.5 Jun/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

How to Manual Unit 5

r problem?Change the video driver to generic (standard) driver to try and resolve the problem.3.The Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) magnetization from an outside source.Let the monitor’s internal degaussi ...

(5 pages) 1097 0 0.0 Jan/2010

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Kiobel vs. Royal Dutch Petroleum

ts of Video Gaming on TeensIn the 1940's, Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann introduced the cathode ray tube amusement device which was an invention and later filed it under the United States ...

(6 pages) 0 0 0.0 Apr/2013

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law