However, it was in 1884 that the biggest step yet towards television was taken. Paul Nipkow sent images over wires with a ...

The spinning disk in a mechanical TV is referred to as a Nipkow disk, after its inventor, [Paul Gottlieb Nipkow]. [Nipkow] conceived and patented the idea of a spinning disk with a spiral of holes ...

The interesting thing about the early days of television is the fact that it took so long for people to start really using it. Back in the year 1884, the student Paul Nipkow had already applied for ...