Farnsworth screen capture

[Sandy G]

Me likey ! Somewhere I have an old, old, old book about the principles of television, & it has a Farnsworth that has a sort of odd, oblong shaped clear lucite case...This book is so old that it didn't really have much about color TV in it, except to say that there were several systems "under development". IIRC, it was copyright 1947...

[wa2ise]

Speaking of TV material in entertainment media, I remember a 2 page article in a Dennis the Menace comic book describing raster scanning in television broadcasting and receivers. It was actually a pretty good article written so 8 year old kids could make sense of the process of how television works.

Years later in Dennis the Menace comics, the father takes the back off the family TV set and pulls the tubes to take them to a tester at the store. He needs something to hold the tubes, his wife gets an egg crate. At the store, he tests the tubes, finds a bad one and gets a replacement. Then they stop for some groceries at the supermarket, and you guessed it, the egg crate of tubes gets mixed up with an egg crate full of eggs. Dennis won't be able to watch his favorite show "Cowboy Bob" for a month, as it will take that long for dad to get paid and be able to buy all new tubes... Hopefully, whoever bought eggs and ended up with TV tubes would bring them back, and Dennis' dad would get them back in a few days.