Paul Nipkow
1860-1940
German engineer and inventor who developed a mechanical scanning device (the Nipkow disk) used in early televisions. The Nipkow disk consisted of a spinning metal disk with a spi...
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Nipkow, now considered the forefather of the television age, received little recognition for his contribution during his lifetime. Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi demonstrated a device that could ...
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Paul Nipkow
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow