The World's Largest Computer in 1951

[Moonbear]

Or, a kinetograph!

 

[Mk]

That's what I thought, but there's no U in it.

 

[Huckleberry]

The first electric telescope?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Oh, wait, you said it has to have a U in it, then how about a thaumatrope?

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]

Did Edison invent it?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Paul Nipkow's mechanical television thingy

 

[Moonbear]

Paul Nipkow's mechanical television thingy

I can't find a name for it, they're just calling it a Nipkow disk here:
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blnipkov.htm

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Or, a kinetograph!

Whewwwww, uncle!

I call that one close enough, but what I was looking for was the Nipkow disk

In 1884, university student Paul Nipkow of Germany proposed and patented the world's first electromechanical television system. Nipkow proposed a disc camera, that contained a disc which was perforated. To capture a moving image the disc was rotated before an image and had the effect of dividing the picture into lines. Light sensitive selenium behind the perforated disk would capture the moving image.

The camera became known as 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.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Uh oh, I guess Zooby got it first!

 

[zoobyshoe]

Uh oh, I guess Zooby got it first!

What was the clue about the U all about?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

T U V --> TV

Danger, you picked up this didn't you? I thought you did.

 

[zoobyshoe]

T U V --> TV

Danger, you picked up this didn't you? I thought you did.

I'm drawing a blank.

 

[Mk]

Tenants Union of Victoria?

 

[Moonbear]

T U V --> TV

Danger, you picked up this didn't you? I thought you did.

Tel-Uh-Vision?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Tel-Uh-Vision?

No, even worse!


...QRSTUVWXYZ

 

[Mk]

Oh, that one sure is tricky...

 

[zoobyshoe]

No, even worse!


...QRSTUVWXYZ

Let's everyone of us agree never to mention the badness of this clue to anyone outside this thread.

 

[Moonbear]

No, even worse!


...QRSTUVWXYZ

 

[Danger]

T U V --> TV

Danger, you picked up this didn't you? I thought you did.

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]

You brought up UFOs! You asked for it!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Sort of. That's the thing that I was thinking of when I said kinescope.

See!

 

[Moonbear]

Let's everyone of us agree never to mention the badness of this clue to anyone outside this thread.

No problem! I can't stop laughing long enough to say anything to anyone! I'm such a sucker for bad jokes.

 

[zoobyshoe]

See!

"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]

No, but as a clue, U lands right in the middle.

I make no apologies!

 

[Danger]

See!

Oh, you mean did I get the gag about the 'U' in the middle of 'TV'. Yeah. Loved it.

Loved Zoob's blankness even more.

 

[Huckleberry]

I seem to remember a reference to an ellemeno. Should have guessed there would be a TUV somewhere nearby.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

"Sort of" is what you say to your 97 year old great grandmother when she asks if her sweater buttons are all lined up.

I was allowing for your age.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I make no apologies!

Course not, gramma, that was a helpful, helpful clue! Now, let's just get your buttons buttoned up a little neater here.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I seem to remember a reference to an ellemeno. Should have guessed there would be a TUV somewhere nearby.

See again, Huckleberry gets it - the big picture!

 

[zoobyshoe]

See again, Huckleberry gets it - the big picture!

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?