Samantha Thompson, curator at Lowell Observatory, will give a talk titled "Television as an Aid to Astronomy: Investigating the rise and fall of image tube technology" at 11 a.m. on Thursday, November 10, 2016, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series.
Thompson is a Ph.D. candidate in the history of science at Arizona State University. She is studying the development of electronic image intensifiers for astronomy from the 1930s through the 1970s.
In this talk, Thompson will review a technology that struggled to gain acceptance by the astronomical community, despite its many advantages, and analyze the factors that led to its varying degrees of success. She will specifically focus on the development of image tubes by the Carnegie Image Tube Committee, established in 1954 under the coordination of the DTM.
Coffee, tea, and a continental breakfast will be served before the lecture at 10:30 a.m.
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