Paul Nipkow

Paul Nipkow

Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow was born on August 22,1860, in Lauenburg, Pomerania (now Poland). While he was a student at the Neustadt, he developed what is now known as the Nipkow disk. The circular disk has holes in a spiral line for capturing the image and sending the picture to a light sensor. There is no evidence Paul Nipkow developed a prototype of the disk, but, later, the inventor of the mechanical TV got his ideas from Nipkow’s disk.

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