orthicon

IPA: ɔrθɪkɑn

Examples of "orthicon" in Sentences

Essentially, the orthicon was a pickup tube that used a low-velocity electron beam to scan a photoactive mosaic.
Principally, weight and electrical power were the factors that required the much smaller black-and-white-image orthicon TV camera.
The only way that Neil and Buzz could have improved the TV picture with the orthicon camera system was to move from the small antenna to the large S-band erectable antenna that was stored on the LM.
Corporations also use other things to similar purposes, one famous example being the duel between Philo Farnsworth, the actual inventor of television more precisely, the orthicon tube, and David Sarnoff and RCA.