If you mis-spent your teenage years fishing broken televisions from dumpsters and either robbing them for parts or fixing them for the ability to watch The A Team upstairs rather than in the living ...

One of the more impressive presentations of a gadget at a recent Maker Fair was a floor-mounted four-hoop device with LEDs along each hoop. The hoops were circular in shape as though they were the ...

In Electromechanical Displays, Part 1: The Nipkow Disk, the Nipkow disk was considered as a possible low-cost, mechanically-simple, perspicuous display like that of oscilloscopes. The Nipkow disk ...

Television as we now know it, an electronically scanned and reproduced image, was a development of the 1930s. I’ll spend more time discussing electronic TV at a later date. For now though, let’s take ...