John Logie Baird (1888-1946) applied for a patent for a mechanical television in 1923. He ran successful experiments in transmitting images in 1926, and in 1930 he worked with the British ...

So what does the BBC’s abandonment of Baird’s technology mean now for the reputation of John Logie Baird himself as an ‘inventor’ of television? Indeed, might it be fair to say that the ...

We start in 1909 in Dover where Louis Bleriot has just made the first crossing of the English Channel by aeroplane. You must enable JavaScript to play content Then we ...

This was the first object to be transmitted as an image in early television experiments by John Logie Baird.This St John Ambulance Maltese Cross belonged to John Logie Baird's doctor, Dr George ...