On August22,1860, German engineer Paul Gottlieb Nipkow was born, who invented a predecessor of today's television http://yovisto.blogspot.de/2014/08/paul-nipkow-and-picture-scanning.html
Today 162 years ago, inventor and engineer Karl Ferdinand Braun was born. The Nobel laureate (1909) is known for his significant improvement of radio and television technology in the Wilhelmine Period.
Television content is regarded as a vital component of Europe's heritage, collective memory and identity - all our yesterdays - but it remains difficult to access. EUscreen project aims at the creation of a representative collection of television programs, secondary sources and articles permitting in this way access to students, scholars and the general public.