Included is a facsimile of a document from 1933 describing the
iconoscope. The bibliography has only a brief list of references.
Germinated in the
iconoscope and image dissector, involuntary response now blooms in satellite transponders and video-on-demand.
On its staff were such notables as: Joseph Slepian, renowned for his many contributions to the understanding of electrical discharge in gases; Trygve Yensen, responsible for important improvements in magnetic steels; Stephen Timoshenko, known as "the father of structural mechanics"; Ross Kilgore, a pioneer in microwaves: Vladimir Zworykin, whose invention of the
iconoscope was the key to modern television; Clint Hanna, Presidential medalist for the tank gun stabilizer; Stewart Way, important contributor to the American axial flow jet engine: Edward Condon early developer of quantum mechanics; William E.
Attending to the yellowing typescripts of his religious screeds as if they were medieval incunabula, Roberts locates, for example, the substitution of his own neologism "
iconoscope" (a frozen tableau) for Edison's "kinetoscope," a word still faintly visible under the artist's typed correction.
While working at RCA, Zworykin perfected his
iconoscope, the first television camera pickup tube.
Originally, the Emmys were going to be called the Ikes, for the television
iconoscope tube.
Sarnoff: Broadcast TV's twin fathers, the first of whom invented the first camera tube (the
iconoscope), which RCA's Sarnoff helped develop and launch.
He called it an
iconoscope. The rear of the
iconoscope was coated with a large number of tiny cesium-silver droplets.
