Before flat screen technologies took over, we associate TV with the CRT. But there were other display technologies that worked, they just weren’t as practical. One scheme was the Nipkow disk, and ...

If we have a television in 2021 the chances are that it will be a large LCD model, flat and widescreen, able to display HD images in stunning clarity. Before that we’d have had a CRT colour TV, them ...

One of the more impressive presentations of a gadget at a recent Maker Fair was a floor-mounted four-hoop device with LEDs along each hoop. The hoops were circular in shape as though they were the ...

In Electromechanical Displays, Part 1: The Nipkow Disk, the Nipkow disk was considered as a possible low-cost, mechanically-simple, perspicuous display like that of oscilloscopes. The Nipkow disk ...

Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow (22 August 1860 – 24 August 1940) was a German technician and inventor.Nipkow experimented in telephony and the transmission of moving pictures. While still a student he ...