First prototype for a plasma display monitor
was invented in 1964
The very first prototype for a plasma
display monitor was invented in July 1964 at the University of
Illinois by professors Donald Bitzer and Gene Slottow, and then
graduate student Robert Willson. However, it was not until after the
advent of digital and other technologies that successful plasma
televisions became possible. According to Wikepedia "a plasma
display is an emissive flat panel display where light is created by
phosphors excited by a plasma discharge between two flat panels of
glass."
During the early sixties, the University of
Illinois used regular televisons as computer monitors for their
in-house computer network. Donald Bitzer, Gene Slottow, and Robert
Willson (the inventors listed on the plasma display patent)
researched plasma displays as an alternative to the cathode-ray
tube-based televisions sets being used.
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A cathode-ray display has to constantly
refresh, which is okay for video and broadcasts but bad for
displaying computer graphics. Donald Bitzer began the project and
enlisted the help of Gene Slottow and Robert Willson. By July of
1964, the team had built the first plasma display panel with one
single cell. Today's plasma televisions use millions of cells.
After 1964, television broadcast companies
considered developing plasma television as an alternative to
televisions using
cathode ray tubes.
However,
LCD or liquid
crystal displays made possible flat screen television that squelched
the further commercial development of plasma display. It took many
years for plasma televisons to became successful and they finally
did due to the efforts of Larry Weber. University of Illinois author
Jamie Hutchinson wrote that Larry Weber's prototype sixty inch
plasma display, developed for Matsushita and bearing the Panasonic
label, combined the size and resolution necessary for HDTV with the
addition of thinness.
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