Paul Gottlieb Nipkow Summary

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... Read more

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 ... Read more