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Paul Nipkow 

(Nipkow, Paul Julius Gottlieb )

   

Lauenburg, Germaine  22.August.1860 + Berline 24.August.1940 


   

1844 Television mechanics (Elektrisches Teleskop)

 
 
 
 
In December 1883 had an intuition to transmit the image using a cardboard Drilled that allowed scanning an image read by a cell of selenium light sensitive material obtaining an electrical signal that could be transmitted by cable and rebuild process the image in reverse with a source of light modulated signal from the "video" obtained. On 6 January 1884 presents the patent application to Kaiserliches Patentamt (German patent office) "Elektrisches Teleskop" What will remain essential for the construction of television ' mechanical '.