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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine for a minute that John Logie Baird was around at the peak of the Industrial Revolution, and invented his television around the year 1800. By around 1810 we’d have regular TV news broadcasts.

We start in 1909 in Dover where Louis Bleriot has just made the first crossing of the English Channel by aeroplane. Then we hear about morse code, gramophones, radio, photographs and television ...

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 ...