iconoscope - the first practical television-camera for picture pickup; invented in 1923 by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin

image orthicon,orthicon - a now obsolete picture pickup tube in a television camera; electrons emitted from a photoemissive surface in proportion to the intensity of the incident light are focused onto the target causing secondary emission of electrons

television camera,tv camera,camera - television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam

electron tube,thermionic tube,thermionic vacuum tube,thermionic valve,vacuum tube,tube - electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope