An illustration of a simple Nipkow disk. Hzeller (CC BY-SA 3.0). There was one piece of television technology that evaded a 1980s dumpster-diver, no 625-line PAL set from the 1970s was ever going ...

We’ve covered the Nipkow scanning disk in a previous article, with its characteristic spiral of holes. We see the original Baird Televisor, but the interesting part comes as we move to the studio.

The CellVoyager CQ1 extracts rich features, making comprehensive high-content cellular image analysis possible, while the Nipkow Spinning Disk Confocal Technology enables high-speed scanning while ...

In his patent specification, he described an apparatus that he named the “electric telescope”. The Nipkow Disk, as it was called, was fully operational, but there was hardly any demand for it, which ...