General Electric Experimental T-6 Cathode Ray tube

General Electric Experimental T-6 Cathode Ray Tube
Tube cathodique expérimental
Experimentelle Kathodenstrahlröhre

Tube developed as part of the Thermoplastic Tape Recorder (TPR, also referred to internally as “Talaria Tape Tube”) project at the General Electric Research Lab in Schenectady (New York).

Introduced by General Electric around 1960, the TPR was an electronic imaging system that records information by an electron beam on a plastic film, which is then heated and cooled to create images. It was developed for high-resolution, fast-processing recording, featuring in research and development for airborne applications and specialized image recording projects.

• W.E. Glenn, Thermoplastic Recording, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 30 No. 12, December, 1959.
• Blueprint, Proposed T-6 Optics & Body, May 8, 1962.
• See also General Electric Research Laboratory, 3 experimental tubes.