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Word: oscillight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...image" corresponds to the light image. By means of oscillating magnetic fields, the entire electronic image is moved back & forth 7,200 times a second in front of an aperture. The number of electrons escaping through the aperture constitutes a varying electric current, which, amplified and transmitted, controls the "oscillight" in the receiving set where the images are conversely reproduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Television | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

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