Abstract: The Image Iconoscope—A Camera Tube for Television

The oldest television camera tube, the iconoscope, is now used only for transmitting still pictures (e.g. the signal picture of a certain station) and film pictures. Further development of camera tubes in Europe has followed a course different from that in America. In the U.S.A. the image orthicon has become predominant, whilst in Europe the image iconoscope is widely used. Of the latter there are British and French versions and also one that has been developed in the Philips Laboratory at Eindhoven (Netherlands). This Philips image iconoscope is described here and compared with other camera tubes.

Print ISSN

0898-042X

Published

1952-06

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Information

DOI

10.5594/J05010