(from the article `television`) ...States by Vladimir K. Zworykin (the Iconoscope) in 1924 and by Philo T. Farnsworth (the Image Dissector) in 1927. These early inventions were soon ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/o/33
An orthicon is a form of television camera tube in which the optical image to be transmitted is projected on a photo-sensitive mosaic on the far side of a transparent signal plate, a charge pattern thus being produced on the mosaic. Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/GO.HTM
image orthiconnoun a now obsolete picture pickup tube in a television camera; electrons emitted from a photoemissive surface in proportion to the intensity of the incident light are focused onto the target causing secondary emission of electrons Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974