| Zworykin had developed a successful camera tube, the iconoscope, but many other necessary parts of a television system were patented by Farnsworth. |
| Included is a facsimile of a document from 1933 describing the iconoscope. |
| But her spunky sister, Frances, chooses brains over brawn and marries the brilliant Vladimir Zworykin, who ends up inventing the iconoscope and then the kinescope. |
| He called on them to see if they'd be interested in his old iconoscope, and the were: gave him five hundred dollars for it. |
| Each viewer is thus an unconscious pointillist painter like Seurat, limning new shapes and images as the iconoscope washes over his entire body. |
| By requiring us to constantly fill in the spaces of the mosaic mesh, the iconoscope is tattooing its message directly on our skins. |
