Nipkow biography
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Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
German electrical engineer and inventor (1860–1940)
Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow (German:[ˈpaʊlˈgɔtliːpˈnɪpkɔv]; 22 August 1860 – 24 August 1940) 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.[1] Hundreds of stations experimented with television broadcasting using his disk in the 1920s and 1930s, until it was superseded by all-electronic systems in the 1940s.
Nipkow has been called the "father of television",[2][3] together with other early figures of television history like Karl Ferdinand Braun.
The first regular television service in the world, Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow, was named in his honour.[4]
Beginnings
[edit]Nipkow was born in Lauenburg (now Lębork) in the Prussianprovince of Pomerania, now part of Poland. While at school in neighbouring Neustadt (now Wejhe
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Paul Nipkow
Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow, born 22nd August 1860 in Lauenburg in Pomerania.
While at school in Neustadt, West Prussia, Nipkow studied telephony and the transmission of moving pictures. After graduation, he went to Berlin in order to study science. He studied physiological optics with Hermann von Helmholtz, and physiological optics and electro-physics with Adolf Slaby.
While still a student, he invented a device he entitled the "electric telescope". The key component of this invention later became known as the "Nipkow disc". Accounts of its invention state that on Christmas Eve, 1883 when he sat alone at home with an oil lamp, he conceived the idea to use a spiral-perforated platta to divide a picture into a mosaic of points and lines. Another important component of his invention was a selenium photocell.
Nipkow applied for a patent in the imperial patent office in Berlin for his electric telescope. This was for the electric reproduction of illuminating objects, inom
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Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
INVENTOR
1860 - 1940
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow (German: [ˈpaʊl ˈgɔtliːp ˈnɪpkɔv]; 22 August 1860 – 24 August 1940) 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Gottlieb Nipkow has received more than 161,415 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Paul Gottlieb Nipkow is the 69th most popular inventor (down from 63rd in 2019), the 146th most popular biography from Poland (down from 115th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Inventor.
Nipkow is most famous for his invention of the Nipkow disk, which is an early type of television.
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