Early tv techs faced color challenge

[speakerlust]

AWE-YES ---- Then there was the illustrious BeamScope !!! ---- That 25 inch diagonal magnifying glass that had prism like grooves in it......
The claim was that you attach it to the front of your tiny little black and white portable TV and it would enlarge the picture and make it color too !!!
All the guys at the TV shop that I worked at laughed themselves silly over that one .... I wound up with one and tried it out just for laughs
It magnified the picture all right, and there was this colorful corona over all of the images and around the edges of the television set... truly an under-
appreciated device I took it outside and melted a hole right through a popcan with it !!!! .... Then I melted a lead tire weight !!!
I set it up on two chairs and barely focused it on a griddle with I cooked
everything on that either turned out totally scorched or half raw......
I forget what happened to that gem ??? ...