Make: Volume 86

PROJECTS: Pepper’s Ghost in a Jar

with LCD and other more modern technologies.

I have a growing collection of vintage televisions

of various sizes, shapes, and ages. There’s

everything from a built-like-a-Buick 1958 RCA

Sportable to a minuscule 1969 Symphonic Minni

portable. I’ve got non-TV CRTs too, like a monitor

that was originally used with a black-and-white

video camera for microscopy. Mainly, though, I

collect 1970s solid-state TVs from brands like

Zenith and General Electric; their picture is often

very strong, nearly 50 years on, and sometimes

they’re fashionable too. Case in point, I have

a Zenith Sidekick that’s covered completel