Before flat screen technologies took over, we associate TV with the CRT. But there were other display technologies that worked, they just weren’t as practical. One scheme was the Nipkow disk, and ...

Believe it or not, the Mickey Mouse clip used for this demonstration is actually in the public domain. The earliest televisions used a spinning disk technology called the Nipkow disk, which is exactly ...

One of the more impressive presentations of a gadget at a recent Maker Fair was a floor-mounted four-hoop device with LEDs along each hoop. The hoops were circular in shape as though they were the ...

In Electromechanical Displays, Part 1: The Nipkow Disk, the Nipkow disk was considered as a possible low-cost, mechanically-simple, perspicuous display like that of oscilloscopes. The Nipkow disk ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Inevitably, shortly after it became feasible to transmit intelligence through the air using ...

Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow (22 August 1860 – 24 August 1940) was a German technician and inventor.Nipkow experimented in telephony and the transmission of moving pictures. While still a student he ...