Paul Gottlieb Nipkow 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 transmit an audio signal in the late 1890s. Nipkow was... more
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 spiral pattern of holes drilled in it. Invented in 1884, it was used... more
