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Or, a kinetograph!
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Mk
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That's what I thought, but there's no U in it.
Huckleberry
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The first electric telescope?
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Moonbear said:
No, but that is another good guess. I didn't realize that there are so many related concepts, but this was considered an essential technical concept.
Mk
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Did Edison invent it?
zoobyshoe
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Paul Nipkow's mechanical television thingy
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I can't find a name for it, they're just calling it a Nipkow disk here:zoobyshoe said:
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blnipkov.htm
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Moonbear said:
Whewwwww, uncle!
I call that one close enough, but what I was looking for was the Nipkow disk
http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/TV_HIST_FORTNER.html
Also. http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blnipkov.htm
Also: http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/NIPKOW_DISK.html
It is considered to be the first rasterizer, and was part of the first mechanical television, patented in 1884.
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Uh oh, I guess Zooby got it first! 
zoobyshoe
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What was the clue about the U all about?Ivan Seeking said:Uh oh, I guess Zooby got it first!
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T U V --> TV
Danger, you picked up this didn't you? I thought you did.
Danger, you picked up this didn't you? I thought you did.
zoobyshoe
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I'm drawing a blank.Ivan Seeking said:T U V --> TV
Danger, you picked up this didn't you? I thought you did.
Mk
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Tenants Union of Victoria?
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Ivan Seeking said:T U V --> TV
Danger, you picked up this didn't you? I thought you did.
Tel-Uh-Vision? 
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Moonbear said:
No, even worse!...QRSTUVWXYZ
Mk
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Oh, that one sure is tricky...
zoobyshoe
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Let's everyone of us agree never to mention the badness of this clue to anyone outside this thread.Ivan Seeking said:
...QRSTUVWXYZ
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Ivan Seeking said:
...QRSTUVWXYZ
Danger
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Sort of. That's the thing that I was thinking of when I said kinescope. I thought that the name was used for that before it was for picture tubes.Ivan Seeking said:T U V --> TV
Danger, you picked up this didn't you? I thought you did.
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You brought up UFOs! You asked for it!
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Danger said:
See!
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No problem! I can't stop laughing long enough to say anything to anyone! I'm such a sucker for bad jokes.zoobyshoe said:
zoobyshoe
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"Sort of" is what you say to your 97 year old great grandmother when she asks if her sweater buttons are all lined up.Ivan Seeking said:See!
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Ivan Seeking said:
I make no apologies!
Danger
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Oh, you mean did I get the gag about the 'U' in the middle of 'TV'. Yeah. Loved it.Ivan Seeking said:See!
Loved Zoob's blankness even more.
Huckleberry
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I seem to remember a reference to an ellemeno. Should have guessed there would be a TUV somewhere nearby.
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zoobyshoe said:
I was allowing for your age.
zoobyshoe
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Course not, gramma, that was a helpful, helpful clue! Now, let's just get your buttons buttoned up a little neater here.Ivan Seeking said:I make no apologies!
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Huckleberry said:
See again, Huckleberry gets it - the big picture!
zoobyshoe
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Course he gets the big picture, Gramma. Certainly he does! We all guessed it right away, we were just teasing Gramma! Why who couldn't guess it with a clue like that?Ivan Seeking said:See again, Huckleberry gets it - the big picture!