TALES FROM THE CATHODE RAY

 As amazing as it seems to me, the cathode ray has passed into history. I still have a working model of the largest one ever to be sold to household consumers and it continues to function in glorious bright rich color while exciting the phosphors on the screen to glow by bombarding them with streams of electrons. There's enough high voltage inside that box to fell a grown elephant and it's so heavy it takes two very large and strong men even to lift it, but that's another story. Anyway, here's to the last of the cathode rays.