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Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow (22 August 1860 – 24 August 1940) was a German technician and inventor. He invented the Nipkow disk, which laid the foundation of television, since his disk was a fundamental component in the first televisions.
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (born August 22, 1860, Lauenburg, Pomerania [now Lębork, Poland—died August 24, 1940, Berlin, Germany) was a German engineer who discovered television’s scanning principle, in which the light intensities of small portions of an image are successively analyzed and transmitted.
A short biography of Paul Nipkow, German television pioneer and the inventor of the Nipkow disc.
Aug 22, 2020 · On August 22, 1860, German engineer Paul Gottlieb Nipkow was born. He is best known for having conceived the idea of using a spiral-perforated disk (the Nipkow disk), to divide a picture into a matrix of points, and became an early television pioneer.
Apr 9, 2024 · Join us on a captivating journey into the early days of technological breakthroughs! In this video, we explore the remarkable story of Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, ...
Jan 13, 2020 · Early inventors attempted to build either a mechanical television based on Paul Nipkow's rotating disks or an electronic television using a cathode ray tube developed independently in 1907 by English inventor A.A. Campbell-Swinton and Russian scientist Boris Rosing.
Paul Nipkow appearing on German television in 1937. Nipkow is standing behind the microphone. A few years later, the leadership of the Third Reich saw the propaganda value in claiming television was a German invention, and in 1935 named the first public television station after Nipkow.
