People are already speculating about a name for our new town hall / arts centre - so let me make an early pitch for John ...

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 ...

Walk around Soho and Covent Garden and one name pops up time and time again. John Logie Baird, Scottish-born inventor of television, seems to have broadcast his achievements to half the streets in the ...

It took four years for the BBC to abandon the mechanical Baird TV system, why it happened and why it was crucial. The story of how the BBC abandoned Baird’s system for the technically superior ...

Scientists and inventors were racing to work out how to combine them into television. John Logie Baird created the first prototype from four inventions from other people (all described ...

A new guide to TV programmes which have either been filmed in Scotland or have Scottish links has been dedicated to John Logie Baird. The Helensburgh-born inventor became the first person to ...

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 ...