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1927 Sunday Express 28 Aug. 3/2 One of the most interesting events of the week will be the demonstration by Mr. J. L. Baird..of the wonders of noctovision. Members are to be asked to walk past Mr. Baird's new invention, the noctovisor, in a dark room, where invisible rays will pick them out of the darkness and throw their images on a screen in another room.

1933 Discovery Apr. 137/2 The ‘Noctovision’ in which infra-red rays are employed to penetrate darkness and fog.

1978 Electr. & Electronics Abstr. 81 61/1 The principles of three basic methods of vision in darkness are outlined: noctovision; detection of thermal radiation..; and amplification of the night radiation before its entry into the eye.

1991 Acta Oto-Laryngol. Suppl. No. 481. 463 This system was composed with a noctovision camera, its controller, a frame of camera, three infrared lamps, video deck and display television.

2002 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 35 238/1 A side-effect of the photo-cells that he [sc. J. L. Baird] employed..allowed him to tout ‘noctovision’, or ‘night-television’, to the government.