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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 ]
Schematic showing the circular paths traced by the holes in a Nipkow disk. A Nipkow disk (sometimes Anglicized as Nipkov disk; patented in 1884), also known as scanning disk, is a mechanical, rotating, geometrically operating image scanning device, patented by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow in Berlin. [1]
Paul Nipkow invents the Nipkow disk, an image scanning device that later will be a major breakthrough both for modern television and reading machines. [8] 1900 Invention Russian scientist Tyurin envisions the first OCR machine to serve as an aid to the visually handicapped, but never manages to develop it. [1] 1912 Product Text-to-speech
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 ...
As a 23-year-old German university student, Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow proposed and patented the Nipkow disk in 1884 in Berlin. [6] This was a spinning disk with a spiral pattern of holes in it, so each hole scanned a line of the image.
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Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (1860–1940), Germany – Nipkow disk; Jun-ichi Nishizawa (1926–2018), Japan – Optical communication system, SIT/SITh (Static Induction Transistor/Thyristor), Laser diode, PIN diode; Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), Sweden – dynamite; Ludvig Nobel (1831–1888), Sweden/Russia – first successful oil tanker
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