Cathode ray tube (Braun tube)
Tubo de rayos catódicos (tubo de Braun)
- Date
- 1897 · confidence high
- Place
- University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
- Credited to
- Karl Ferdinand Braun
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What it is
Braun modified the Crookes tube by adding a phosphorescent screen to make the cathode ray beam visible, being the first to conceive the tube as a display rather than merely an object of study.
Strasbourg then belonged to the German Empire; today it is French territory.
What it led to
- Cathode-ray television
- Radar and CRT monitors
- The oscilloscope