An unidentified man (possibly John Logie Baird) holds Stooky Bill (left) and another ventriloquist’s dummy used in Baird’s first TV transmissions. John Logie Baird made history by transmitting the ...

October 2: British inventor John Logie Baird successfully tested the world’s first television on this day in 1925. He first transmitted a moving picture of a ventriloquist’s dummy before filming his ...

The final episode of Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary specials, “The Giggle,” brings Neil Patrick Harris’ Toymaker into the mix. This character is new to many fans but not actually new to the Whoniverse.

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 ...

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 ...

One hundred years ago, John Logie Baird successfully transmitted the first clear TV image: the unsettling grin of Stooky Bill. An unidentified man (possibly John Logie Baird) holds Stooky Bill (left) ...