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04/11/2006

Flat Screen TV from 1958

According to this old Popular Mechanics article, flat screen televisions have been around since 1958 -- or at least the technology. Designed mainly for military use, it just never caught on due to patents/licensing issues. Click the image for full article.
From the article: "The picture tube, only 2-5/8 inches thick, is made of two rectangular pieces of plate glass with about an inch of space between them. The edges are sealed with powdered-glass solder to hold the vacuum. The surface of the thin tube is the equivalent of a 21-inch conventional screen."
[Modern Mechanix via MAKE - ShoutIt]

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Posted at 04/11/2006 02:36am by Primo
Mmmmm...flat screen television from 1958. Just imagine if this technology had actually been released commercially in 1958, we'd probably have holographic televisions by now.
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Posted at 04/11/2006 05:51am by Mizan
ye, but we kinda do like projector tv and stuff but 3d holographic, now thts something
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Posted at 04/11/2006 07:26am by Pantallas planas en 1958 | Sólo otro blog infame
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Posted at 04/11/2006 2:46pm by Liz
Oh wow. How... creative.
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Posted at 04/11/2006 2:57pm by Andrew
they really were the greatest generation
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Posted at 04/11/2006 4:17pm by Panda
WOW.
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Posted at 04/11/2006 5:44pm by alfie
I like flat prunes
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Posted at 04/11/2006 5:44pm by gretta
MMMMM flat prunes
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Posted at 04/11/2006 5:45pm by Frank
I like prunes also
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Posted at 04/11/2006 6:48pm by Wilson
The 1950s were the best time period. WOW! It's so cool. If it were comerialy sold we would hav holograohic tv by now.
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Posted at 04/11/2006 8:27pm by K-SO
one can only ponder what could be now had that been released then...
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Posted at 04/11/2006 10:01pm by Lukasz
haha
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Posted at 04/12/2006 00:17am by Melodie
...my gosh...-_-
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Posted at 04/12/2006 03:09am by wild bil ticktock
yea...corporate patent bullshit kept us from advancing this technology....just think...i could have been cyberboning pamela anderson when i was watching baywatch at age 16 lol
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Posted at 04/12/2006 04:29am by Kyuzo
it may be flat screen but the base is thick as hell!!! -kyu
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Posted at 04/12/2006 04:35am by Mr.Wednesday
Makes you think about the tecnology we maybe already have but not comercially released... Maybe our kids will come to us and say "Dad! Did you know that the holographic TV was invented in 1999??"
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Posted at 04/12/2006 05:54am by daniel
that screen is nothing else than a different construction of a normal crt screen with the electron beam in its bottom station... tft and plasma screens are a totally different technique
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Posted at 04/12/2006 07:05am by Gremlin in the Box
Its actually a GOOD thing that the technique is different. The more techniques out there, the more we can build off of. Maybe LCD will NEVER lead to holographics, maybe Plasma will, if one is adopted and the other ABANDONED, we will never know...
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Posted at 04/12/2006 07:50am by Batmanners
Is it that hard to make a flat screen? I thought the ovalish screen was so you can sit around the TV and still see pretty clearly, except for the stuff on the other side =P. Just wondering, what would happen if they just made a normal TV with a flat screen? I don't know much aboot TV's...I'm more of a computer person rather than an electronics person.
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Posted at 04/12/2006 08:02am by Steve
I bet it wasn't in color and it cost $10 trillion
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Posted at 04/12/2006 08:15am by chris
Actually, the military flight technology that has not been released for public viewing probably really is mind-blowing.
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Posted at 04/12/2006 09:04am by ytdhjnxthbnhbn
FAKE
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Posted at 04/12/2006 12:56pm by Keltron
it has a tube...thats not exactly amazing technology, having that come out then would not blast technology into the realm of holograms...that makes no sense
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Posted at 04/12/2006 2:14pm by Joe American
you people are all fucking imbeciles
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Posted at 04/12/2006 7:29pm by Sybert
actually...the japanese started developing HDTV technology in the 50's..
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