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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 ...
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]
Portrait of Baird in 1917 . 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.
Phonovision was a patented concept to create pre-recorded mechanically scanned television recordings on gramophone records. [1] Attempts at developing Phonovision were undertaken in the late 1920s in London by its inventor, Scottish television pioneer John Logie Baird. [1]
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.
John Hamilton: American actor (Adventures of Superman) (died 1958) February 26, 1887: William Frawley: American actor (I Love Lucy, My Three Sons) (died 1966) August 14, 1888: John Logie Baird: British pioneer of television technology (d. 1946) January 7, 1889: H. R. Baukhage: American journalist and broadcaster (d. 1976) July 20, 1889
John Baird I (1798–1859), Glasgow architect; John Logie Baird (1888–1946), Scottish engineer, invented the first working television system; John Wallace Baird (1869–1919), Canadian psychologist; John Washington Baird (1852–1923), American chess master; John Baird, founder of the Create a Comic Project
Walter John Buchanan (2 April 1890 – 20 October 1957) was a Scottish theatre and film actor, singer, dancer, producer and director. [1] He was known for three decades as the embodiment of the debonair man-about-town in the tradition of George Grossmith Jr. , and was described by The Times as "the last of the knuts ."