A device which converts infrared radiation into a visible image, used for seeing in the dark.
‘All the time the cameras are grinding and the snooperscope is scanning every inch of the room.’
‘The trouble with the snooperscopes was that they needed their own light source - a searchlight that illuminated targets with an infra-red beam.’
‘After all, it isn't every editor who can go to such things with snooperscopes and the like, so we had to rely on our five senses.’
‘For the night eye needs no artificial light source, like the snooperscopes of World War II, which merely detected the reflections of infrared light shot out by the scopes themselves.’
‘Events are experienced at a far remove, mediated by communications technologies in which the assumed perspective is that of the snooperscope, the prying electronic eye.’
‘At the center I helped develop the electron microscope which produced the snooperscope.’
‘His other inventions included a form of the electric eye and his infrared image tube led to the sniperscope and the snooperscope.’
‘His service was recognized as invaluable for his contributions in developing aircraft-fire control, television guided missiles, infra-red-image tubes for sinperscopes and snooperscopes and for storage tubes.’
‘The ending footage is an artistic expression of the subtext that the enemy, looked down from a vantage point, are squashed like roaches under the snooperscope in a detached, game way, as if they were sub-human.’
‘During World War II, he developed a camera a hundred times more powerful than the iconoscope, which was the first night-vision camera, called the sniperscope or snooperscope, and he worked on radio-controlled missiles.’
‘In 1965, he negotiated a contract for me to build one using a cathode-ray tube display, under the sponsorship of the Night Vision Laboratory at Ft. Belvoir, Virgina (which was developing the Army's sniperscopes and snooperscopes).’
‘The bright gleam of infra-red light that they had seen through the snooperscope bore out their suspicion that they had stumbled on a new and revolutionary kind of communication device.’
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