[Phys-L] Re: plasma TV

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

NO, NO, NO!

The camera is named after the Polaroid Corp.  Which took its name after
the Land invention of sheet polarization film.

He could have just as easily named it the Land camera.

http://www.highbeam.com/ref/doc3.asp?docid=1E1:Land-Edw


bc

David Willey wrote:

> Anthony Lapinski wrote:
>
>
>
> > I was discussing plasmas in class, and a student asked what a plasma TV
> > was. With so many new types of TV's on the market, I was not sure what to
> > say. Does a plasma TV have anything to do with real plasmas? If so, what
> > role do they play? If not, then why are they called "plasma" TV's?
> Maybe for the same reason the "polaroid camera" was named the way it
> was, it sounds high tech. (AFAIK polaroid cameras don't use polarization.)
> cheers,
> David
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