Word: vidicon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...link has not been necessary, however, in most of the experiment carried out by other universities. These have mostly involved the transmission of a lecture delivered in one room to viewers seated in one or more other rooms. Technically, this transmission has proved entirely feasible. Through the use of vidicon television equipment rather than the familiar orthicon, the experimenters have managed to reduce costs considerably. Vidicon has a lower initial cost, a lower maintenance cost, and can be operated by less highly skilled personnel (i.e. students and others available on a university campus) than orthicon...
...Vidicon camera, a new type of TV camera...
This new use of TV was an experiment which the Radio Corp. of America hopes may soon revolutionize the yard techniques of U.S. railroads. Beside B. & O.'s main incoming track, RCA had set up a Vidicon camera, a new type of TV camera which RCA put on sale last week. The camera picked up the boxcar numbers, flashed them on a screen in the yard's four-story control tower. Another camera, set between the tracks (with floodlights) and aimed upward, inspected the passing cars for cracked truck frames, broken springs, missing journal-box lids, etc. Though...
...develop the Vidicon primarily for house detectives and G-men. It was aiming at the important field of "industrial television," where the Vidicon will have vast importance. In the roaring, naming innards of modern industry there are many goings-on too dangerous for human eyes to watch. A cheap, expendable Vidicon can creep up close to a new machine being tested "to destruction." It can brave the flood of gamma rays from a nuclear reactor. It can ride on a guided missile or watch the detonating mechanism of an atomic bomb. Up to the time when it "dies," the faithful...
Less heroic jobs for the Vidicon may be even more useful. An array of the tubes can watch all the aisles of a factory for the plant manager. They can help store detectives keep multiple eyes on shoplifters. One watchman equipped with Vidicons can watch simultaneously many parts of his territory...