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Iconoscope

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Noun

1. iconoscope

the first practical television-camera for picture pickup; invented in 1923 by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin

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Iconoscope

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noun
a television camera tube in which an electron beam scans a photoemissive surface, converting an optical image into electrical pulses

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Iconoscope

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noun
a television camera electron tube, consisting of a vacuum tube enclosing a photosensitive plate on which the image is projected and an electron gun that scans the image with a narrow focused beam

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Iconoscope

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n.
An electron tube used in the earliest video cameras to capture images by scanning a photoactive mosaic with an electron beam.

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