And Now For Something Different

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take a look I thought you guys would enjoy this.

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From 1933:

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From 1957:

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Proto - G.P.S (Sep, 1956)

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This is from 1958:

Flat Screen TV in 1958 (Jan, 1958)

Filed under: Ahead of its time, Origins, Television — @ 9:06 pm

Source: Popular Mechanics ( More articles from this issue )

Issue: Jan, 1958

Update: This was real. It looks like it got abandoned more because of licensing and a standards battle than anything else. Here is a really interesting interview:

http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs_iporta...fs/Aiken322.pdf (pdf) done with the inventor from 1996.

AIKEN: "They finally agreed to a license. But, at the last minute, I guess at a Board of Directors Meeting for the final approval, somebody on the Board of Directors of RCA said, "Wait a minute, we've forgotten something. How are we going to explain to our stockholders that we wasted millions of dollars on the wrong tube?" And there was silence. And that did it. They said, "No, we will not take a license."