Screen History: The Haeff Memory and Graphics Tube
B. Jack Copeland, Andre A. Haeff, P.T. Gough, Cameron Wright · IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · 2016
Haeff-type tubes formed the high-speed memory of Whirlwind I but had their greatest impact in graphics and display technology, remaining in widespread use until the 1980s. Haeff seems to have been the first to store and display graphics and text on an electronic screen for an unlimited period, in 1947.