camera tube

American  

noun

Television.

1. a cathode-ray tube that converts an optical image projected on its light-sensitive receptor surface into an electrical signal by a scanning process: used in analog television cameras.

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camera tube British  

noun

1. the part of a television camera that converts an optical image into an electrical signal See also image orthicon vidicon Plumbicon iconoscope

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Example Sentences

The name Emmy derives from an early piece of TV equipment called the image orthicon camera tube - or the Immy.

From BBC

The name Emmy derives from an early piece of TV equipment called the image orthicon camera tube, nicknamed the Immy.

From BBC

Not long after I walked into his office, Arjun Joshi, an associate professor of otolaryngology at the George Washington University School of Medicine, went to the laryngoscope, a camera tube that he fed up my nostril until it emerged in my mouth — a shocking intrusion that would soon become as familiar as brushing my teeth.

From Washington Post

After earning his doctorate in engineering physics from Cornell in 1953, he joined the Westinghouse Research Laboratory, and his work there on secondary electron emissions led to a highly sensitive camera tube that was used in the video camera on Apollo 11.

From New York Times

His research helped lead to a sensitive television camera tube that captured low-light lunar action during the 1969 moon landing and U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong's historic first steps.

From US News