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    A Nipkow disk (sometimes Anglicized as Nipkov disk; patented in 1884), also known as scanning disk, is a mechanical, rotating, geometrically operating...
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    Nipkow (German: [ˈpaʊl ˈgɔtliːp ˈnɪpkɔv]; 22 August 1860 – 24 August 1940) was a German electrical engineer and inventor. He invented the Nipkow disk...
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  • high-resolution representative images of fixed samples. Spinning-disk (Nipkow disk) confocal microscopes use a series of moving pinholes on a disc to...
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    student, Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow proposed and patented the Nipkow disk in 1884 in Berlin. This was a spinning disk with a spiral pattern of holes...
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  • down in 1944. The station was named after Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, the inventor of the Nipkow disk. Parallel to the experiments by John Logie Baird in the...
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    Television (section Disk)
    student, Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow proposed and patented the Nipkow disk in 1884 in Berlin. This was a spinning disk with a spiral pattern of holes...
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    university student, Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow proposed and patented the Nipkow disk in 1884. This was a spinning disk with a spiral pattern of holes in it...
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  • pronunciation: [ˈzɪlvərə(n) ˈnɪpkɔfsxɛif]; "Silver Nipkow Disk", named for German television pioneer Paul Gottlieb Nipkow) is a Dutch television and media award that...
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    in France, using a 30-line mechanical television system based on the Nipkow disk. It was operated by the French PTT agency with a transmitter located...
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  • round disk. Technical problems soon ended these experiments. Still, Tainter is regarded as the gramophone record inventor. 1884: Paul Nipkow obtains...
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    using the Nipkow disk. Paul Gottlieb Nipkow had invented this scanning system in 1884. Television historian Albert Abramson calls Nipkow's patent "the...
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  • down in 1944. The station was named after Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, the inventor of the Nipkow disk. Most often the term "television station" refers to a station...
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  • in the mid-19th century. Early mechanical video scanners, such as the Nipkow disk, were patented as early as 1884, however, it took several decades before...
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    film technology, while Paul Nipkow and Karl Ferdinand Braun laid the foundation of the television with their Nipkow disk and cathode-ray tube (or Braun...
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  • researcher Kenjiro Takayanagi demonstrates a system that uses a mechanical Nipkow disk and a photoelectric tube in the transmitting device, and a cathode-ray...
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    perforated spinning disks, similar to a Nipkow disk, to interrupt the flow of light between bulbs and phototoreceptors aligned with the disk perforations. The...
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    astronomy use). The earliest video cameras were based on the mechanical Nipkow disk and used in experimental broadcasts through the 1910s–1930s. All-electronic...
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  • International Radio Exposition). Schubet's higher-performance system employed a Nipkow disk flying-spot scanner for its transmitter (a form of mechanical television)...
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  • Television tests were conducted in 1926 using a combined mechanical Nipkow disk and electronic Braun tube system. In 1926, he demonstrated a CRT television...
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    He developed a system similar to that of John Logie Baird, using a Nipkow disk to scan the subject and generate electrical signals. But unlike Baird...
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    Adolf Hitler's personal dentist Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (1860–1940), a German technician; invented the Nipkow disk early TV transmission technology Paul Peter...
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    work. Early systems generally used a device known as a "Nipkow disk", which was a spinning disk with a series of holes punched in it that caused a spot...
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    processing Analog television Analog television § Displaying an image Nipkow disk Image dissector Scan line Donald G. Fink (ed), Electronic Engineer's...
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    London department store Selfridges. Baird's device relied upon the Nipkow disk by Paul Nipkow and thus became known as the mechanical television. It formed...
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    which used the Theremin effect (1920s) Electromechanical television – Nipkow disk with mirrors instead of slots (ca. 1925) Terpsitone – platform which...
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    the London department store Selfridges. Baird's device relied upon the Nipkow disk and thus became known as the mechanical television. It formed the basis...
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    disks include light holes, 4) Infrared LEDs shine through the disks 5) Sensors gather light pulses to convert to X and Y vectors. Stroboscope Nipkow disk...
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  • tallest non-reinforced concrete structure. The Nipkow disk is patented by German scientist Paul Gottlieb Nipkow. October 13 – The Georgia Institute of Technology...
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  • 4000 project (precursor to X-Seed 4000) Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (1860–1940), Germany – Nipkow disk Jun-ichi Nishizawa (1926–2018), Japan – Optical communication...
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    of characterology Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (1860–1940) a German technician, television pioneer, invented the Nipkow disk Josef Horovitz (1874–1931) a Jewish...
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