Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow was born on August 22, 1860. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow (German: [ˈpaʊl ˈgɔtliːp ˈnɪpkoː]; 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. Hundreds of stations experimented with television broadcasting using his disk in the 1920s and 1930s, until it was superseded by all-electronic systems in the 1940s. Nipkow has been called the "father of television", together with other early figures of television history like Karl Ferdinand Braun. The first regular television service in the world, Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow, was named in his honour.