Reader [Xellers] sent in his newest instructable: DIY Electron Accelerator: A Cathode Ray Tube in a Wine Bottle. While not exactly what you might think of a cathode ray tube, the basics are in place.

Crookes' discharge tube for showing the deflection of a cathode ray stream using a magnet, J. J. Griffin & Sons, London, 1914. Crookes' discharge tube for showing the deflection of a cathode ray ...

Between his 1874 discovery and his invention of cathode-ray tube in 1897, Braun moved from strength to strength in his teaching career. Having started out as a teacher at a Gymnasium (school ...

Video games, computer games, virtual reality – they're part of a multi-billion pound industry that's developing at an astounding pace. But the first video game to be invented came 24 years earlier.