On 26 January 1926, John Logie Baird first demonstrated his 'televisor' in public. It was the prototype for television. Many people couldn't believe what they were seeing whilst others thought it was ...

The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and ...

John Logie Baird took his Televisor out of stealth on January 26, 1926. But the demonstration faced some serious skepticism.

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 ...

Students at John Logie Baird's former university have recreated a working version of his original 1926 television. The final-year engineers from the University of Strathclyde have built a televisor ...

To mark 100 years since the first public demonstration of television, RTS Technology Centre's Kara Myhill reflects on how the medium has transformed from a technological marvel into something that's ...

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Scottish inventor John Logie Baird revealed the first television, called the Televisor, to the world. Those first pictures, ...

Discover how John Logie Baird’s invention brought BBC television to St Helens in 1949, with Sutton Coldfield transmissions and early TV sets ...