Paul Gottlieb Nipkow: Facts & Related Content

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Born August 22, 1860 • Poland
Died August 24, 1940 (aged 80) • BerlinGermany
Inventions Nipkow disk

Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and inventor
Nikolaus Otto, c. 1868
Nikolaus Otto
German engineer
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
English engineer
John Ericsson, detail of an oil painting by Charles Loring Elliott; in the Science Museum, London.
John Ericsson
Swedish-American engineer
Ctesibius of Alexandria
Ctesibius Of Alexandria
Greek physicist and inventor
Nathan Read
American engineer and inventor
Elisha King Root
American inventor, engineer, and manufacturer
Sir William Siemens, engraving after a portrait by Rudolf Lehmann
Sir William Siemens
British inventor
Wankel, Felix; Wankel engine
Felix Wankel
German inventor
Werner von Siemens, drawing by Ismael Gentz, 1887
Werner von Siemens
German electrical engineer
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Diesel, 1883
Rudolf Diesel
French-German engineer
Guericke, engraving by C. Galle, 1649, after a portrait by Anselmus von Hulle
Otto von Guericke
Prussian physicist, engineer, and philosopher
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Polish-born Dutch physicist
Karl Benz
Karl Benz
German engineer
Robert Bosch
German engineer
Carl von Linde
Carl von Linde
German engineer
Ruhmkorff coil
Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff
German inventor
Max Eyth
German engineer and inventor

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