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iconoscope

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i·con·o·scope  (-kn-skp)
n.
An early form of a television-camera tube, equipped for rapid scanning of an information-storing, photoactive mosaic.
[Originally a trademark.]
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Noun1.iconoscopeiconoscope - the first practical television-camera for picture pickup; invented in 1923 by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
television pickup tube, television-camera tube - a tube that rapidly scans an optical image and converts it into electronic signals


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In Roberts's analysis: "The iconoscope offers a certain cold comfort--it manages, by bringing the opposite spheres of sacred and mundane into a dedifferentiated equilibrium, to wrest a form of transcendence out of the iconoclasm itself.
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