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Visiplate  
  A flat screen for viewing remote images.  

This is an early reference to this term. As I recall, Buck Rogers movie shorts from the thirties used what appeared to be a vision plate. The earliest attempts to project images using radio waves used a spinning mechanical disk as a mask over a varying light source to produce the picture.

The first public demonstration of television occurred in England in 1926; by the mid-1930's, a few broadcast stations sent programming to a very small number of privately-owned sets.

Crane looked into the visiplate and gasped.
Technovelgy from Skylark Three, by E.E. 'Doc' Smith.
Published by Amazing Stories in 1930
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Here's another quote for this term from First Contact, a classic Murray Leinster short story:

He handed over the photographs and looked with professional interest at the visiplates which showed all space outside the ship...There was the little gadget of oddly angled mirrors - remote descendant of the back-view mirrors of twentieth century motorists - which allowed a view of all the visiplates without turning the head. And there were the huge plates which were so much more satisfactory for a direct view of space.

Leinster also used this term in earlier stories (mid-thirties), but I don't have a quote from those stories. Similar terms were used in the sf from this era.

Here's an enjoyable quote from Spore Trapper, a 1937 short story by RR Winterbotham:

The visiplate near the controls of the atomic engines glowed as he touched the contact button. A cloudy mist swirled as electrons took their places to reveal the wrinkled features of Isaac McDonald...

The earliest reference to a "vision screen" is the cinematophote, from E.M. Forster's prescient story The Machine Stops, published in 1909.

Now, of course, we actually have visiplates - that is, flat panel displays. And it only took sixty years for them to come into common usage

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