Paul Gottlieb Nipkow

✶August 22, 1860

†August 24, 1940

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 Hundreds of stations experimented with television broadcasting using his disk in the 1920s and 1930s, until it was superseded by all-electronic systems in the 1940s.

German electrical engineer and inventor (1860–1940)

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