Iconoscope

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

The iconoscope (from the Greek: εἰκών "image" and σκοπεῖν "to look, to see") was the first practical video camera tube to be used in early television cameras. The iconoscope produced a much stronger signal than earlier mechanical designs and could be used under any well-lit conditions.

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