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Paul Gottlieb Nipkow

Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, created the Nipkow disk (d. 1940)

Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow 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. Hundreds of stations experimented with television broadcasting using his disk in the 1920s and 1930s, until it was superseded by all-electronic systems in the 1940s.

22 August 1860

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