In his lab 100 years ago, inventor John Logie Baird delivered the first public demonstration of true television. What exactly did viewers see that day?
The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and ...
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John Logie Baird took his Televisor out of stealth on January 26, 1926. But the demonstration faced some serious skepticism.
In Soho, London, 100 years ago, John Logie Baird’s mechanical television system broadcast recognisable human faces for the ...
In the June 1925 issue of Popular Science, Newton Burke wrote: "J.L. Baird, inventor of the promising new system of radiovision." Television’s broadcast debut in 1936 unfolded like a plot made for the ...
One hundred years after the birth of television in Britain, Magic Rays of Light author John Wyver looks back at the rapid development of the new medium during the 1930s – a lost era that saw a huge ...
Scottish inventor John Logie Baird revealed the first television, called the Televisor, to the world. Those first pictures, flickering images of the head of a ventriloquist's doll, sparked a ...
Today marks an auspicious anniversary which might have passed us by had it not been for [Diamond Geezer], who reminds us that ...
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