The Fernsehsender "Paul Nipkow" (TV Station Paul Nipkow) in Berlin, Germany was the first public television station in the world. It was on the air from March 22, 1935 until it was shut down in 1944. The station was named after Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, the inventor of the Nipkow disk.
The station was receivable only in and around Berlin but became very popular when it covered the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. About 160,000 viewers saw the Olympic games on a few private televisions and in many public television parlours. Television was used more for mainstream entertainment rather than propaganda, as Joseph Goebbels preferred radio as a mass-medium. The heavy and slow equipment made it difficult to report, and almost all programming was broadcast live. From 1942 to 1944, the Germans also restarted the TV station in Paris to broadcast programs in German and French. In 1944, the station was shut down, as were most other cultural events, as a consequence of the approach of the Allied Armies in the Normandy Campaign.
Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow (22 August 1860 – 24 August 1940) was a Germantechnician and inventor. He invented the Nipkow disk, one of the first successful technologies for television transmission. Hundreds of stations experimented with television broadcasting using the Nipkow system in the 1920s and 1930s, until it was superseded by all-electronic systems in the 1940s.
Beginnings
Nipkow was born in Lauenburg (now Lębork) in the Prussian province of Pomerania, now part of Poland. While at school in neighbouring Neustadt (now Wejherowo), in the province of West Prussia, Nipkow experimented in telephony and the transmission of moving pictures. After graduation, he went to Berlin in order to study science. He studied physiological optics with Hermann von Helmholtz, and electro-physics with Adolf Slaby.
Nipkow disk
While still a student he conceived the idea of using a spiral-perforated disk (Nipkow disk), to divide a picture into a mosaic of points and lines. Accounts of its invention state that the idea came to him while sitting alone at home with an oil lamp on Christmas Eve, 1883. Alexander Bain had transmitted images telegraphically in the 1840s but the Nipkow disk improved the encoding process.
Nipkow, Baird, Zworykin and the Development of Television
published: 26 Jul 2013
Invenzione della televisione | Paul Gottlieb Nipkow chi è?
La storia dell'invenzione della televisione inizia, in realtà, alla fine del 1800, ben due secoli fa! Precisamente il 24 dicembre del 1883, grazie a uno speciale disco bucherellato inventato dal tedesco Paul Gottlieb Nipkow.
#Paul Gottlieb Nipkow #tv #televisione
published: 17 May 2020
I Built a Mechanical Digital Camera With a Nipkow Disk
See how I built a mechanical camera using an old record that I turned into a Nipkow disk.
The principle was already patented in the year 1884 by Paul Nipkow and realized 40 years later by John Logie Baird. Now I reinvented it, using a state-of-the-art stepper motor and a Raspberry Pi. Although the images are blurry, distorted and black and white, you can neverteless recognize what´s on them.
Camera: https://amzn.to/3QiWzmf
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How To Pronounce Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
published: 09 Aug 2022
Nipkow Spiral Disk
Nipkow Spiral DiskThe principle of image dissection had been one of the first steps on the way to the television. Nipkow spiral disk was the first image dissection device. Earlier, in 1873 W. Smith and J. Mayhem discovered selenium photosensitivity (inner photo effect). In 1888 A. G. Stoletov created a photo electric cell with an external photoeffect. These discoveries helped to create first systems of "remote vision". In 1878 Adriano de Paiva, a Portuguese inventor, created the first TV transmitter. The French inventor Constantin Senlecq, English electrical engineers John Perry and William Edward Airton, American employee John Carry, and Russian inventor Porfiriy Ivanovich Bakhmetiev initiated first TV projects. These projects provided for image dissection using mechanical equipment. Howe...
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Arduino Nipkow-disk clock with date, running text and pixel art
Here is a clock that features an old principle to display pictures: A nipkow disk. Such a disk has holes in a spiral pattern, and when it rotates in front of a lamp, pictures can be displayed by controlling the cycles of the lamp.
Wikipedia can explain this better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipkow_disk
My nipkow clock features two displays with 24 x 5 pixels each, and can show date and time, as well as pixel artwork and running text.
Project details and all Arduino code is here:
https://hackaday.io/project/176786-arduino-nipkow-disk-clock.
published: 01 Feb 2021
Nipkow disk display device using Arduino
see also : https://youtu.be/SKmy9s6t3hs ( 32 line, movie )
Arduino source code : https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/christophe-fieldman/nipkow-disk-based-digital-display-device-2cc98a?f=1
In 1884 Paul Nipkow proposed a simple way to capture, transmit and view a moving image using two spinning disks and electricity. This project uses the same disk to generate a moving digital image.
published: 18 Mar 2018
Paul Nipkow
Film dokumentalny na temat odkrycia Paula Nipkowa. Lęborczanin do 1938 był jedynym posiadaczem urzędowo potwierdzonego wynalazku telewizyjnego.
La storia dell'invenzione della televisione inizia, in realtà, alla fine del 1800, ben due secoli fa! Precisamente il 24 dicembre del 1883, grazie a uno specia...
La storia dell'invenzione della televisione inizia, in realtà, alla fine del 1800, ben due secoli fa! Precisamente il 24 dicembre del 1883, grazie a uno speciale disco bucherellato inventato dal tedesco Paul Gottlieb Nipkow.
#Paul Gottlieb Nipkow #tv #televisione
La storia dell'invenzione della televisione inizia, in realtà, alla fine del 1800, ben due secoli fa! Precisamente il 24 dicembre del 1883, grazie a uno speciale disco bucherellato inventato dal tedesco Paul Gottlieb Nipkow.
#Paul Gottlieb Nipkow #tv #televisione
See how I built a mechanical camera using an old record that I turned into a Nipkow disk.
The principle was already patented in the year 1884 by Paul Nipkow and...
See how I built a mechanical camera using an old record that I turned into a Nipkow disk.
The principle was already patented in the year 1884 by Paul Nipkow and realized 40 years later by John Logie Baird. Now I reinvented it, using a state-of-the-art stepper motor and a Raspberry Pi. Although the images are blurry, distorted and black and white, you can neverteless recognize what´s on them.
Camera: https://amzn.to/3QiWzmf
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See how I built a mechanical camera using an old record that I turned into a Nipkow disk.
The principle was already patented in the year 1884 by Paul Nipkow and realized 40 years later by John Logie Baird. Now I reinvented it, using a state-of-the-art stepper motor and a Raspberry Pi. Although the images are blurry, distorted and black and white, you can neverteless recognize what´s on them.
Camera: https://amzn.to/3QiWzmf
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Nipkow Spiral DiskThe principle of image dissection had been one of the first steps on the way to the television. Nipkow spiral disk was the first image dissect...
Nipkow Spiral DiskThe principle of image dissection had been one of the first steps on the way to the television. Nipkow spiral disk was the first image dissection device. Earlier, in 1873 W. Smith and J. Mayhem discovered selenium photosensitivity (inner photo effect). In 1888 A. G. Stoletov created a photo electric cell with an external photoeffect. These discoveries helped to create first systems of "remote vision". In 1878 Adriano de Paiva, a Portuguese inventor, created the first TV transmitter. The French inventor Constantin Senlecq, English electrical engineers John Perry and William Edward Airton, American employee John Carry, and Russian inventor Porfiriy Ivanovich Bakhmetiev initiated first TV projects. These projects provided for image dissection using mechanical equipment. However, Paul Nipkow, a German railwayman, made the most famous and significant contribution to the history of television. In 1884 he took out a patent for a disk with evenly spiralled small holes. If you place and rotate this disk in the photolens's focus, you will see one image point at a given moment. You'll see all image points in one rotation. As persistence is typical of a human eye (about 0.1 second), an image will be perceived as continuous provided rapid disk rotation.Scientists and engineers obtained all means required to give birth to television. They only needed an impulse to promote their creativity. And they got it. Eighteen ninety five faced radio and cinema discoveries. As they were becoming more and more widespread, and this popularity caused the equipment able to transmit images of moving objects over large distances to be developed in early 1900s.
Nipkow Spiral DiskThe principle of image dissection had been one of the first steps on the way to the television. Nipkow spiral disk was the first image dissection device. Earlier, in 1873 W. Smith and J. Mayhem discovered selenium photosensitivity (inner photo effect). In 1888 A. G. Stoletov created a photo electric cell with an external photoeffect. These discoveries helped to create first systems of "remote vision". In 1878 Adriano de Paiva, a Portuguese inventor, created the first TV transmitter. The French inventor Constantin Senlecq, English electrical engineers John Perry and William Edward Airton, American employee John Carry, and Russian inventor Porfiriy Ivanovich Bakhmetiev initiated first TV projects. These projects provided for image dissection using mechanical equipment. However, Paul Nipkow, a German railwayman, made the most famous and significant contribution to the history of television. In 1884 he took out a patent for a disk with evenly spiralled small holes. If you place and rotate this disk in the photolens's focus, you will see one image point at a given moment. You'll see all image points in one rotation. As persistence is typical of a human eye (about 0.1 second), an image will be perceived as continuous provided rapid disk rotation.Scientists and engineers obtained all means required to give birth to television. They only needed an impulse to promote their creativity. And they got it. Eighteen ninety five faced radio and cinema discoveries. As they were becoming more and more widespread, and this popularity caused the equipment able to transmit images of moving objects over large distances to be developed in early 1900s.
Here is a clock that features an old principle to display pictures: A nipkow disk. Such a disk has holes in a spiral pattern, and when it rotates in front of a ...
Here is a clock that features an old principle to display pictures: A nipkow disk. Such a disk has holes in a spiral pattern, and when it rotates in front of a lamp, pictures can be displayed by controlling the cycles of the lamp.
Wikipedia can explain this better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipkow_disk
My nipkow clock features two displays with 24 x 5 pixels each, and can show date and time, as well as pixel artwork and running text.
Project details and all Arduino code is here:
https://hackaday.io/project/176786-arduino-nipkow-disk-clock.
Here is a clock that features an old principle to display pictures: A nipkow disk. Such a disk has holes in a spiral pattern, and when it rotates in front of a lamp, pictures can be displayed by controlling the cycles of the lamp.
Wikipedia can explain this better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipkow_disk
My nipkow clock features two displays with 24 x 5 pixels each, and can show date and time, as well as pixel artwork and running text.
Project details and all Arduino code is here:
https://hackaday.io/project/176786-arduino-nipkow-disk-clock.
see also : https://youtu.be/SKmy9s6t3hs ( 32 line, movie )
Arduino source code : https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/christophe-fieldman/nipkow-disk-based-dig...
see also : https://youtu.be/SKmy9s6t3hs ( 32 line, movie )
Arduino source code : https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/christophe-fieldman/nipkow-disk-based-digital-display-device-2cc98a?f=1
In 1884 Paul Nipkow proposed a simple way to capture, transmit and view a moving image using two spinning disks and electricity. This project uses the same disk to generate a moving digital image.
see also : https://youtu.be/SKmy9s6t3hs ( 32 line, movie )
Arduino source code : https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/christophe-fieldman/nipkow-disk-based-digital-display-device-2cc98a?f=1
In 1884 Paul Nipkow proposed a simple way to capture, transmit and view a moving image using two spinning disks and electricity. This project uses the same disk to generate a moving digital image.
La storia dell'invenzione della televisione inizia, in realtà, alla fine del 1800, ben due secoli fa! Precisamente il 24 dicembre del 1883, grazie a uno speciale disco bucherellato inventato dal tedesco Paul Gottlieb Nipkow.
#Paul Gottlieb Nipkow #tv #televisione
See how I built a mechanical camera using an old record that I turned into a Nipkow disk.
The principle was already patented in the year 1884 by Paul Nipkow and realized 40 years later by John Logie Baird. Now I reinvented it, using a state-of-the-art stepper motor and a Raspberry Pi. Although the images are blurry, distorted and black and white, you can neverteless recognize what´s on them.
Camera: https://amzn.to/3QiWzmf
Consider to support this channel on Patreon and get updates about ongoing projects and preview videos!
https://www.patreon.com/docvolt
Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/docvolt
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Nipkow Spiral DiskThe principle of image dissection had been one of the first steps on the way to the television. Nipkow spiral disk was the first image dissection device. Earlier, in 1873 W. Smith and J. Mayhem discovered selenium photosensitivity (inner photo effect). In 1888 A. G. Stoletov created a photo electric cell with an external photoeffect. These discoveries helped to create first systems of "remote vision". In 1878 Adriano de Paiva, a Portuguese inventor, created the first TV transmitter. The French inventor Constantin Senlecq, English electrical engineers John Perry and William Edward Airton, American employee John Carry, and Russian inventor Porfiriy Ivanovich Bakhmetiev initiated first TV projects. These projects provided for image dissection using mechanical equipment. However, Paul Nipkow, a German railwayman, made the most famous and significant contribution to the history of television. In 1884 he took out a patent for a disk with evenly spiralled small holes. If you place and rotate this disk in the photolens's focus, you will see one image point at a given moment. You'll see all image points in one rotation. As persistence is typical of a human eye (about 0.1 second), an image will be perceived as continuous provided rapid disk rotation.Scientists and engineers obtained all means required to give birth to television. They only needed an impulse to promote their creativity. And they got it. Eighteen ninety five faced radio and cinema discoveries. As they were becoming more and more widespread, and this popularity caused the equipment able to transmit images of moving objects over large distances to be developed in early 1900s.
Here is a clock that features an old principle to display pictures: A nipkow disk. Such a disk has holes in a spiral pattern, and when it rotates in front of a lamp, pictures can be displayed by controlling the cycles of the lamp.
Wikipedia can explain this better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipkow_disk
My nipkow clock features two displays with 24 x 5 pixels each, and can show date and time, as well as pixel artwork and running text.
Project details and all Arduino code is here:
https://hackaday.io/project/176786-arduino-nipkow-disk-clock.
see also : https://youtu.be/SKmy9s6t3hs ( 32 line, movie )
Arduino source code : https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/christophe-fieldman/nipkow-disk-based-digital-display-device-2cc98a?f=1
In 1884 Paul Nipkow proposed a simple way to capture, transmit and view a moving image using two spinning disks and electricity. This project uses the same disk to generate a moving digital image.
The Fernsehsender "Paul Nipkow" (TV Station Paul Nipkow) in Berlin, Germany was the first public television station in the world. It was on the air from March 22, 1935 until it was shut down in 1944. The station was named after Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, the inventor of the Nipkow disk.
The station was receivable only in and around Berlin but became very popular when it covered the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. About 160,000 viewers saw the Olympic games on a few private televisions and in many public television parlours. Television was used more for mainstream entertainment rather than propaganda, as Joseph Goebbels preferred radio as a mass-medium. The heavy and slow equipment made it difficult to report, and almost all programming was broadcast live. From 1942 to 1944, the Germans also restarted the TV station in Paris to broadcast programs in German and French. In 1944, the station was shut down, as were most other cultural events, as a consequence of the approach of the Allied Armies in the Normandy Campaign.