A question for you: if the cathode ray tube had never been invented, what would an oscilloscope look like? We’re not sure ourselves, but it seems like something similar to this mechanical tachyscope ...

While it might be nice to use a $4,000 oscilloscope in a lab at a university or well-funded corporate environment, a good portion of us won’t have access to that kind of equipment in our own home ...

The objective of the project is to create and display a working clock on the surface of a CRT tube in the form of oscilloscope. The design uses an old TRIO 20MHz oscilloscope to produce the image. A ...

Scope displays of this nature seem like a given to us today. Yet, old-timers will remember a day when the cathode-ray-tube (CRT) displays of oscilloscopes were not so capable. In fact, to capture an ...

Introduced by RCA (Radio Corporation of America) in November 1936, the 913 CRT (cathode-ray tube) created a minor stir in the electronics community. RCA initially priced the 913 at $5.60 ...