Episode 106 - Digital Eyes
Advent of Computing
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The P-N Semi-Conductor Junction
The iconoscope wasn't meant for recording video. This was a purely live style of imaging. The signal that came out of the tube with minimal massaging was the same signal that a standard television would read. To make a still image, the signal would have to be stored in some type of buffer which committed it to film. You could probably just point a normal camera at a TV and snap a photo at that point.
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