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A mechanical, geometrically-operating image scanning device, a fundamental component of early mechanical television.
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Nipkow disk — Schematic showing the circular paths traced by the holes in a Nipkow disk A Nipkow disk (sometimes Anglicized as Nipkov disk), also known as scanning disk, is a mechanical, geometrically operating image scanning device, invented by Paul Gottlieb… … Wikipedia
Nipkow, Paul Gottlieb — ▪ German scientist born , Aug. 22, 1860, Lauenburg, Pomerania [Germany] died Aug. 24, 1940, Berlin, Ger. German engineer who discovered television s (television) scanning principle, in which the light intensities of small portions of an… … Universalium
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Paul Gottlieb Nipkow — Nipkow in about 1884 Born August 22, 1860(1860 08 22) Lauenburg, then Prussia, today Poland Died August 24, 1940( … Wikipedia
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