Tubetube

"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)

[Marconi 707, 7-inch, 1938: Joyce himself could have watched TV 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].