Charactron hi-speed printer

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1952
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 91 KB
• Volume: 253
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(52)90748-5

✦ Synopsis

Charactron Hi-Speed Printer.-A unique development combining electronics and dry photographic techniques for the first time to provide high-speed, automatic recording of intelligence at rates as high as 10,000 characters per second was described recently by J. T. McNaney, inventor of the Charactron, a special-purpose cathode-ray tube.

McNaney, a senior electronics engineer for Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation (Convair), San Diego