January 26th marked 100 years since the first public demonstration of a technology that we now know as television. Tatenda finds out more about the history of television and how it changed the world.

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In 1903 two men who were to become world-famous authors were near-neighbours in Hastings, but would not have known each other. On this page three weeks ago I described how Robert Tressell, author of ...

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

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

January 26 marked the 100th anniversary of John Logie Baird's first public demonstration of the television, and since then, pretty much every speck of Britain has made it on to the screen. Highclere ...

The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and collaborative. John Logie Baird with his transmitting station on March 19, ...

January 26, 2026 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of television. Diamond Geezer, a blogger living in the East End of London, UK, explains the story behind the birth of television. Baird wanted ...

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 ...