1958 Flat Screen CRT

[Chips]

Here is a blog of an article from the Jan. 1958 Popular Mechanics Issue. It is about a CRT flat screen made in 1958. Here is the blog article.
Flat Screen TV in 1958
Here is a more recent interview in 2009 with the inventor of that 1958 CRT flat-screen-TV.
Oral-History:William Ross Aiken - GHN: IEEE Global History Network

 

[Aaron62]

"BECAUSE OF NEW TECHNIQUES in the field of electronics, airplane instrument panels and home television sets may soon have something in common -- a rectangular picture tube less than three inches thick."

hehe, what are we down to for flat panel thickness these days? Less than an inch?

I wonder what TV is going to look like in 50 years. My bet is on holograms.

 

[MrPogi]

I was promised a hovercraft. I want my hovercraft!