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image converter

British

noun

a device for producing a visual image formed by other electromagnetic radiation such as infrared or ultraviolet radiation or X-rays

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In November 1969 — four months after the first astronauts walked on the moon — Dr. Carruthers received a patent for an “Image Converter for Detecting Electromagnetic Radiation Especially in Short Wave Lengths.”

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