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Television was born when the German student Paul Nipkow used two perforated wheels, a seien cell, a lamp and cable to spend Christmas with his mother even though she was kilometres away from him.

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© 1999 Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig/Wiesbaden

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Wittig, H. (1999). Introduction. In: Intelligent Media Agents. Multimedia Engineering. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-86851-0_1

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