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 ...

Believe it or not, the Mickey Mouse clip used for this demonstration is actually in the public domain. The earliest televisions used a spinning disk technology called the Nipkow disk, which is exactly ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Inevitably, shortly after it became feasible to transmit intelligence through the air using ...

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 ...

I remember the small TV we had in the Bronx in the mid-50s. It was a wooden piece of furniture with a small round screen (We had to sit pretty close and huddle around that small image, but it was ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Think HDTV began with the adoption of the ATSC standard in 1994? With the development of ...

Replay: When you push the boundaries of technological progress it stands to reason that more than a few ideas will fail to catch on. Camera history is full of examples of devices that for whatever ...

A new optical measuring device offers a cheaper, quicker alternative to confocal microscopy. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology (IPT) have developed a prototype optical ...