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1884

The Nipkow Disc

1884 | January – German inventor Paul Nipkow develops a rotating-disc technology to transmit pictures over wire.


Nipkow’s ‘disc’ from the patent application of 1884 / Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow (22 August 1860 – 24 August 1940)



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