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

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 ...

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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 ...

In 1888, The National Geographic Society was founded in Washington. In 1926, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird launched a revolution in communication and entertainment with the first public ...

On Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz network of concentration camps in Poland, freeing some 7,000 survivors.

The Baird Televisor was introduced in 1926 and ... released during the era of non-color dominance. VCR technology was invented in 1956, but it wouldn't rise to prominence until the 1980s.

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How John Logie Baird's mechanical television showed the ... And when it did so, there was no single 'inventor' of television. A large number of experimenters, entrepreneurs, and public ...

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And when it did so, there was no single 'inventor' of television ... In 1924, a young Scottish engineer, John Logie Baird, developed a way of passing a beam of light through a rapidly spinning ...