orthicon

orthicon
/awr"thi kon'/, n. Television.
a camera tube, more sensitive than the iconoscope, in which a beam of low-velocity electrons scans a photoemissive mosaic.
Also, orthiconoscope /awr'thi kon"euh skohp'/.
[1935-40; ORTH- + ICON(OSCOPE)]

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