Into the long squabble over color television a husky new contender shouldered its way last week. Chromatic Television Laboratories, an affiliate of Paramount Pictures Corp., brought forth a new, all purpose television tube which can: 1) receive any kind of color television that has been proposed so far, including both the CBS and RCA systems; 2) receive ordinary black & white broadcasts; 3) switch itself automatically from one system to another. The tube's inventor: Nobel Prizewinner Ernest O. Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, who built the first model in his Berkeley (Calif.) workshop.
If the new tube lives up to its...
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