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Picture Tubes

Postwar Picture Tubes

CRT manufacturing items New TV Screen Offers Greater Contrast
CRT rebuilding Philips "Folded-Up" CRT
Dumont CRT advertisement Picture tube manufacturing
DuMont CRT specifications Postwar CRT specifications
DuMont's million tube a year plant Rectangular TV Tube Cuts Cost
Fairchild (Aiken) flat screen CRT Skiatron Projection CRT
Flat TV Tube (Gabor tube) Sylvania flat screen CRT
General Electric experimental clear CRT Sylvania 1946 advertisement
How to Manufacture CRTs (Wikibooks) 60 Television Tubes an Hour
John S. Vansant, CRT Engineer  

Direct View Tubes

7GP4 (1946)

 

DuMont 12JP4 Prototype (1947)

Philco Rectangular Prototype (late 40s).

Courtesy of Darryl Hock

 

10HP4. Made about 1948 and used in the Belmont 22AX22 console.

Courtesy of John Folsom

16AP4 (1948)

20BP4 (1946)

21AP4 (1951)

30BP4 (1951) Used in the DuMont Royal Sovereign  

K1003P4, postwar replacement for 14AP4 used in DuMont pre-1945 14 inch sets

 

CRT for use in high light situations

MW13-2

 

MW18-3

 

Projection Tubes

 

Rauland projection tube

 

 

TP400 (1948) Used in the Philco 48-2500

 

 

RCA 5AZP4 (1955)