World's Lightest

August 20, 1955, Appleton Post-Crescent

This Mom is happy because she's holding the "world's lightest TV," though at 32 pounds, that could get tedious if it had to be carted too far.  Today, everybody has the equivalent of a TV in their pocket and it is only as heavy as your cell phone, so something this big and bulky is laughable by 2020 standards.  Of course, in 1955, computers could barely do simple math calculations and were in a room the size of a semi-trailer, and look what became of them.  (Side note: My family had such a TV and I can remember having permission to watch Star Trek in the late '60's on it, if only because I couldn't interest my family in it enough to sustain a family viewing experience!  I think the TV had built-in rabbit ears and, if you remember that experience, it often took a certain finesse to get the picture right.  If you weren't careful, you could have a second Mr. Spock following him around, despite what the plot warranted.)