GEC Scan Conversion Storage Tube D01043 Assembly 10125274
Tube convertisseur de balayage
Scan Converter-Röhre

Founded in 1955 and originally located in Garland, Texas, General Electrodynamics Corporation (GEC) produced vidicon camera tubes, optics and mechanical products.

Special tubes were also produced for contractors like RCA, General Electric, Hughes Aircraft Co., Westinghouse, North American Aviation, Lockheed Aircraft and General Dynamics, just to name a few.

As Ranger 9 moved to its impact area on the moon, March 24, 1965, 200 pictures were transmitted over the 3 major television networks, after having been converted from spacecraft television format to standard broadcast format by a GEC scan converter. It was then incorporated as a key element in the television ground data-handling system for the Surveyor program.

The scan converters, besides having applications in the Ranger and Surveyor programs, have found other uses in radar, sonar, computer matrix display, radar simulation and in slow scan television over telephone lines.

In the 1960’s, the vidicon tube market and technology began to diminish with the evolution of solid-state electronics, the camera and tube divisions were abandoned, and the company turned to weighing applications.

NSN 1430-00-013-7161
Cage Code: 18876
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Longueur • Length • Länge : 67.5 cm • 26" 5/8
Diamètre • Diameter • Durchmesser : 12.3 cm • 4" 7/8

 

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