iconoscope

Definitions of iconoscope
  1. noun
    the first practical television-camera for picture pickup; invented in 1923 by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
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    type of:
    television pickup tube, television-camera tube
    a tube that rapidly scans an optical image and converts it into electronic signals
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