image orthicon

His first assignment was to develop an electron multiplier to go with the Image Orthicon.

Image Orthicon tubes were still used till the arrival of the Plumbicon.

The name was loosely adapted from Immy, the nickname for a piece of television equipment then in use, the image orthicon camera.

My image orthicon is wearing out.

This episode shows an artifact of the image orthicon tube used in television cameras of the era.

The image orthicon, (sometimes abbreviated IO) was common in American broadcasting from 1946 until 1968.

Indeed it was the representative of the European tradition in electronic tubes competing against the American tradition represented by the image orthicon.

The iconoscope was the primary camera tube used in American broadcasting from 1936 until 1946, when it was replaced by the image orthicon tube.

A tube called the orthicon was refined into the image orthicon, which was the professional camera tube of choice for several decades.

KQTV had one very large General Electric black & white image orthicon TV Camera.

Two 4.5 in image orthicon cameras were installed at each side of the front deck while a third was mounted on top of the cabin for an all-round view.

Sziklai, who held some 200 patents including color television transmission, is also credited with constructing the first Image Orthicon television camera and inventing a high-speed elevator.

These cameras also required complicated control consoles and rack-mounted power supplies for the camera's many vacuum tubes and ventilator fans cooling their large image orthicon tubes.

For instance, image orthicon cameras were used for capturing Apollo/Saturn rockets nearing orbit after the networks had phased them out, as only they could provide sufficient detail.

In 1960 Philips invented an imaging tube called the Plumbicon to replace the vidicon and Image Orthicon tubes used in studio television cameras.

Finally, television engineer and the third academy president, Harry Lubcke, suggested the name "Immy", a term commonly used for the image orthicon tube used in the early cameras.

Historically, the image orthicon TV camera tube widely used in television studios prior to the development of modern CCD arrays also used multistage electron multiplication.

The image orthicon tube was developed at RCA by Albert Rose, Paul K. Weimer, and Harold B. Law.

The image orthicon was developed during World War II for military purposes and later served as the electronic eye for all television cameras during the initial years of television broadcasting.

The Pye Mk6 Image Orthicon camera was the last version supplied to BBC Outside Broadcasts in 1963 for a new fleet of eight outside broadcast vans.

An image orthicon consists of three parts: a photocathode with an image store ("target"), a scanner that reads this image (an electron gun), and a multistage electron multiplier.

D. Fried, J. Shaffer, and R. Turner, "A Theoretical Analysis of Image Orthicon Performance," Appl.

The orthicon was one of three important tube types developed at Radio Corporation of America by Albert Rose and his colleagues, along with the image orthicon and the vidicon.

The 1960s productions used Marconi image orthicon video cameras, which have a characteristic white "glow" around black objects (and a corresponding black glow around white objects), which was a defect of the pickup.

Upon RCA's development of the more sensitive image orthicon tube in 1943, RCA entered into a production contract with the U.S. Navy, the first tubes being delivered in January 1944.