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"The Tube", "The Boob Tube" - In American and Canadian slang, boob tube is a term used for a television set. The term usually carries a negative or humorous connotation, as it comes from the words boob (a foolish person) and tube (from the television's cathode ray tube) | "The Tube", "The Boob Tube" - In American and Canadian slang, boob tube is a term used for a television set. The term usually carries a negative or humorous connotation, as it comes from the words boob (a foolish person) and tube (from the television's cathode ray tube) | ||
| − | [[http://www.earlytelevision.org/marconi_709.html A Marconi 709 model television, 1938, 9-inch direct view (i.e. not reflected in a mirror), with a AM/SW radio]]: Joyce himself could have watched television or listened to transatlantic shortwave radio whist sitting in a pub on set like this, perhaps thinking of | + | [[http://www.earlytelevision.org/marconi_709.html A Marconi 709 model television, 1938, 9-inch direct view (i.e. not reflected in a mirror), with a AM/SW radio]]: Joyce himself could have watched television or listened to transatlantic shortwave radio whist sitting in a pub on set like this, perhaps thinking of [http://www.finnegansweb.com/wiki/index.php?title=Loftly_marconimasts Marconi's transatlantic radio transmissions and the future of television]. |
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"The Tube", "The Boob Tube" - In American and Canadian slang, boob tube is a term used for a television set. The term usually carries a negative or humorous connotation, as it comes from the words boob (a foolish person) and tube (from the television's cathode ray tube)
[A Marconi 709 model television, 1938, 9-inch direct view (i.e. not reflected in a mirror), with a AM/SW radio]: Joyce himself could have watched television or listened to transatlantic shortwave radio whist sitting in a pub on set like this, perhaps thinking of Marconi's transatlantic radio transmissions and the future of television.
