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1978 - World's smallest Television Camera: The world's smallest TV camera-little highter tha a matchbox was demonstrated in London today. Measuring 2 1/2 ins by 1 in, by 1 1/2 and weighting only 2oz, with a lene about the size of an overcoat button, it has been nicknamed the dick tracy camera after the American Private Eye strip cartoon. It can be used in military surveillance and police work and has applications for mining and inspection of north sea oil drilling operations. The secret of the camera's miniature size is an electronic component caller a charge-coupled device, developed by engineers of the fairchild camera and instrument corporation of mountain view, California. this contains nearly 400, 00 circuit elements in an area smaller than a human fingernail. As a result, the entiere camera can be fitted into the nose of an artillery shell and fired from agun. Defence experts in London are being shown video tapes recorded from one such shell-borne camera as it swung from a parachute over the battlefield nearly a mile away, dropping from 5, 000 feet. Tanks, camouflaged gun emplaments and troops could be clearly for several munutes and their positions pinpointed. Photo shows The world's smallest television camera which only a little bigger than the book-matches held in a hand

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