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Electronic Express

This article reviews the historical development of electronics, highlighting major discoveries and advances. It also describes some key electronic functions and the manner in which various devices carry out these functions. Circuit bending is the modification of battery-powered toys and synthesizers to create new unintended sound effects. Cathode-ray tube, originally developed for displaying electrical waveforms on a screen for engineering measurements, evolved into the television picture tube. Such tubes operate by forming the electrons emitted from the cathode into a thin beam that impinges on a fluorescent screen at the end of the tube. Deflecting the electron beam causes patterns of light to be produced on the screen, creating the desired optical images. The group had no permanent facility, and had to rely on borrowed time in commercial sound studios, including the studio of Louis and Bebe Barron. At the German premiere of Déserts in Hamburg, which was conducted by Bruno Madern...