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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 January 2025. Scottish inventor, known for first demonstrating television (1888–1946) John Logie Baird FRSE Baird in 1917 Born (1888-08-13) 13 August 1888 Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, Scotland Died 14 June 1946 (1946-06-14) (aged 57) Bexhill, Sussex, England Resting place Baird family grave in ...
John Logie Baird FRSE (/ ˈ l oʊ ɡ i b ɛər d /; 13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first live working television system on 26 January 1926.
The television: John Logie Baird (1923) The refrigerator: William Cullen (1748) [167] The flush toilet: Alexander Cumming (1775) [168] The vacuum flask: Sir James Dewar (1847–1932) [169] The first distiller to triple distill Irish whiskey: [170] John Jameson (Whisky distiller) The piano footpedal: John Broadwood (1732–1812) [171]
An assistant to the real-life inventor John Logie Baird purchases a ventriloquist’s dummy named Stooky Bill from the off-putting clerk (very clearl.
John Logie Baird invented some of the first experimental television systems. In 1924 he developed a mechanical television system to transmit moving images by means of electrical signals, which he demonstrated on 25 March 1925 at a London department store, Selfridges. It consisted of a spinning disk set with a spiral pattern of 30 lenses.
Nevertheless, he formed a new company, John Logie Baird Ltd., with offices and labs in a downtown London house. Baird visited the lab less and less frequently over time, and his wife noticed why in a November 1945 visit when he was seen to have to stop and pant after climbing every stair of the building's four stories. [20]
John Anderson: 1833–1900 zoologist and anatomist: curator of the Indian Museum: Thomas Anderson: 1832–1870 botanist director of the Calcutta Botanic Garden: William Arthur: 1894–1979 mathematician John Logie Baird: 1888–1946 engineer television inventor William Baird: 1803–1872 zoologist author of The Natural History of the British ...
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