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- Born:
- August 22, 1860, Lauenburg, Pomerania [now LÄbork, Poland
- Died:
- August 24, 1940, Berlin, Germany (aged 80)
- Inventions:
- Nipkow disk
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Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
German scientist
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (born August 22, 1860, Lauenburg, Pomerania [now LÄbork, Polandādied August 24, 1940, Berlin, Germany) was a German engineer who discovered televisionās scanning principle, in which the light intensities of small portions of an image are successively analyzed and transmitted. Nipkowās invention in 1884 of a rotating disk (Nipkow disk) with one or more spirals of apertures that passed successively across the picture made a mechanical television system possible. The Nipkow disk was supplanted in 1934 by electronic scanning devices.
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