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American television pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth invented the first functional image dissector in 1927, submitting a patent application on January 7, 1927. On September 7 of that year, the image dissector successfully transmitted its first image, a simple straight line, at Farnsworth's laboratory at 202 Green Street in San Francisco.
Apr 10, 2019 · Philo T. Farnsworth, one of the pioneers of electronic television, invented a special type of electron tube for use as a camera tube or imaging tube in television systems. This tube, for which he filed a patent in 1927, was called the Image Dissector.
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May 11, 2017 · Farnsworth’s television system patent, contested over in the 1935 patent suit against RCA, accessed Google Patents. Farnsworth demonstrated how to construct an Image Dissector for Zworykin, who later replicated the tube and presented it to RCA.
Farnsworth called his device an image dissector because it converted individual elements of the image into electricity one at a time. He replaced the spinning disks with cesium, an element that emits electrons when exposed to light.
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In 1927 inventor Philo T. Farnsworth designed and made this television transmission tube that he called an "image dissector." Visible light was focused on a specially-coated detector at the front of the tube. That coating emitted electrons that were received at the tube's anode.
May 20, 2002 · He had one of Farnsworth’s engineers build the heart of Farnsworth’s television system—the so-called image dissector—before his eyes, and then picked the tube up and turned it over in his...
Farnsworth received a patent for his electronic camera tube, the Image Dissector, in 1930 at the age of 24 and became a media star. Zworykin applied for a patent for his TV camera, the Iconoscope, in 1923; but his patent was not granted until 1938 because of Farnsworth’s.
