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The Day the U.S. TV Industry Died

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But at about $1000, the flat tube is not a consumer product and instead is benefiting Zenith’s latest focus of interest-its relatively new and highly profitable personal computer business. Zenith enters the TV receiver business, buying Rauland of Chicago, a picture tube manufacturer. Admiral buys Cortron, leaving 17 U.S.

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L. Frank Baum’s Cautionary Tale About the Gifts of Electricity

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It does this by projecting letters onto the person's forehead. Cory also supplied the delicate line drawings at the beginning and ends of most of The Master Key 's chapters. The illustration below as well as the book cover at top are from a first edition at the Bakken Museum , in Minneapolis.)