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Word: vidicon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week's Manhattan convention of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Radio Corporation of America showed a tiny, bright-eyed tube, the Vidicon, which would just suit Big Brother's purposes. It is hardly larger than a hot dog (1 in. by 6 in.) but it already sees as well as the clumsy, expensive ($1,000) image orthicon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Peeping Tube | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...Vidicon works on a new principle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Peeping Tube | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...them pass through. The transparent conducting layer collects the escaping electrons and passes them on in the form of a "video" current whose rapid fluctuations represent the light and shade of the picture. An ordinary television set turns the current into a copy of the scene which the Vidicon is viewing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Peeping Tube | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

Compared with the image orthicon, which is packed with intricate entrails, the Vidicon is a dream-tube of electronic simplicity. It already sees well in ordinary indoor light, and RCA thinks that it can be made ten times as sensitive as the image orthicon. If so, the Vidicon should be able to see in near-darkness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Peeping Tube | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

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