Insight into John Logie Baird and early television experiments. How Paul Nipkow’s scanning disc paved the way for mechanical television. Why electronic systems replaced mechanical television. When ...

A century ago, on 2 October 1925, the Scottish inventor John Logie Baird successfully transmitted a recognisable moving image of a human face. The original TV star was a young office worker, William ...

John Logie Baird, a Scottish engineer and inventor, performed the first test of a working television system on October 2, 1925. He did so in his London lab*, where he successfully transmitted the ...

Students at John Logie Baird's former university have recreated a working version of his original 1926 television. The final-year engineers from the University of Strathclyde have built a televisor ...

FACT! She is the very first to appear in motion on color television, a transmission that occurred in 1938. Ten years earlier, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird had transmitted the still color image ...

Despite decades of research and innovation, TV remains one of the more static technologies entertaining British households. However, as its history stretches back to the 1920s when Scottish engineer ...