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Paul Nipkow
* 1860 in Lauenburg,now Lębork/Poland
+ 1940 in Berlin
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Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow was a German technician 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until it was superseded by all-electronic systems in the 1940s
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