Television Camera Tubes — A History but Not Yet an Obituary

The development of a practical and useful camera tube was the event that made the introduction of television possible. Although systems not involving a camera tube could be and were developed to produce a television image from films, they did not meet the need for a device that translates a live image into a television picture. The television cameras developed involved a series of significant discoveries and inventions resulting in the cameras that are widely used today. No one person invented a television camera tube in its entirety; instead it was built on the discoveries of previous pioneers. This history concentrates on the basic inventions that are the roots of the final development of the practical and useful camera tubes that made modern television possible.

Print ISSN

0036-1682

Published

1990-09

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J02585