biography
pronunciation:
[nipkof]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1860–1940)
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| biography:
| Engineer and inventor, born in Lauenburg, N Germany. One of the pioneers of television, he invented in 1884 the Nipkow disc, a mechanical scanning device consisting of a revolving disc with a spiral pattern of apertures. In use until 1932, it was superseded by electronic scanning. |
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