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  2. Paul Gottlieb Nipkow - Wikipedia

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    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. [ 1 ]

  3. Nipkow disk - Wikipedia

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    One of the advantages of using a Nipkow disk is that the image sensor (that is, the device converting light to electric signals) can be as simple as a single photocell or photodiode, since at each instant only a very small area is visible through the disk (and viewport), and so decomposing an image into lines is done almost by itself with little need for scanline timing, and very high scanline ...

  4. History of television - Wikipedia

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    The earliest commercially made televisions sold by Baird called Televisors in the UK in 1928 were radios with the addition of a television device consisting of a neon tube behind a mechanically spinning disk (patented by German engineer Paul Nipkow in 1884) with a spiral of apertures first mass-produced television set, selling about a thousand ...

  5. Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow - Wikipedia

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    The Fernsehsender "Paul Nipkow" (TV Station Paul Nipkow) , also known as Deutscher Fernseh-Rundfunk (German Television Broadcasting), in Berlin, Germany, was the first regular television service in the world. [1] [2] [3] It was on the air from 22 March 1935, until it was shut down in 1944.

  6. Television station - Wikipedia

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    The Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow (TV Station Paul Nipkow) in Berlin, Germany, was the first regular television service in the world. [1] [2] It was on the air from 22 March 1935, until it was shut down in 1944. The station was named after Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, the inventor of the Nipkow disk. [3]

  7. Mechanical television - Wikipedia

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    A scene being televised by flying spot scanner in a television studio in 1931. The Nipkow disk in the flying spot scanner (bottom) projects a spot of light that scans the subject in a raster pattern in the darkened studio. Nearby photocell pickup units convert the reflected light to a signal proportional to the brightness of the reflected area ...

  8. History of television in Germany - Wikipedia

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    Broadcasting from the Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow, it used a 180-line system, and was on air for 90 minutes, three times a week. Very few receivers were ever privately owned, and viewers went instead to Fernsehstuben (television parlors).

  9. Zilveren Nipkowschijf - Wikipedia

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    Zilveren Nipkowschijf (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈzɪlvərə(n) ˈnɪpkɔfsxɛif]; "Silver Nipkow Disk", named for German television pioneer Paul Gottlieb Nipkow) is a Dutch television and media award that has been given out since 1961 by a selection of Dutch media journalists and critics to the best show of the year.