The centenary of the invention of television by Helensburgh’s John Logie Baird is set to be celebrated throughout April.

But now a small committee, named JLBTV100, have organised a series of events in April. The group were granted £8,925 from the National Lottery Community Fund to cover the costs of the celebrations.

Today marks an auspicious anniversary which might have passed us by had it not been for [Diamond Geezer], who reminds us that it’s a hundred years since the first public demonstration of television by ...

Today marks an auspicious anniversary which might have passed us by had it not been for [Diamond Geezer], who reminds us that it’s a hundred years since the first public demonstration of television by ...

It was a moment that would revolutionise how we engage with the world and create industries worth billions of pounds. On 26 January 1926, in an attic room in central London, John Logie Baird ...

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Oct. 2 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1925, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird performed the first test of a working television system. In 1950, the "Peanuts" comic strip by Charles M. Schulz was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the June 1925 issue of Popular Science, Newton Burke wrote: "J.L. Baird, inventor of the promising new system of radiovision." ...

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 ...

Jan. 27 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1606, the surviving conspirators in the "Gunpowder Treason" plot to blow up the English Parliament and the king of England on Nov. 5, 1605, were convicted.

Despite decades of research and innovation, TV remains one of the more static technologies entertaining British households. However, as its history stretches back to the 1920s when Scottish engineer ...

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