Video camera tubes are devices based on the cathode-ray tube that were used in television cameras to capture television images, prior to the introduction of charge-coupled device image sensors in the
Vidicon tube 2⁄3 inch (17 mm) in diameter
A display of numerous video camera tubes from the 1930s and 1940s, photographed in 1954, with iconoscope inventor Vladimir K. Zworykin
Farnsworth Image Dissector tube (1931)
A graphic from Kálmán Tihanyi's "Radioskop" patent from 1926 (part of the UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme)
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a
Flat-screen television receivers on display for sale at a consumer electronics store in May 2008
Vladimir Zworykin demonstrates electronic television (1929).
Manfred von Ardenne in 1933