John Logie Baird, born in 1888 near Glasgow, was a true inventor. At the age of 34, when he began his quest to develop television, he already had a string of business ventures behind him.

Long before that fateful November day, the television landscape was crowded with inventors competing for the title to the as-yet unproven but promising medium. Despite his eventual defeat, Baird ...

HITHERTO, television has been confined to flat pictures. In a press demonstration on December 18, Mr. J. L. Baird demonstrated stereoscopic relief in combination with television in colour. Mr.

A DEMONSTRATION was given a short time ago by Mr. J. L. Baird of his recent achievements of the reception of television in colour by a method which avoids the need for revolving disks and lenses ...

On July 3, 1928, the Scottish inventor John Logie Baird accomplished a monumental feat by demonstrating the world's first colour transmission. This groundbreaking achievement revolutionised the field ...

But Baird had the last, ahem, giggle on October 2, 1925 when he successfully transmitted the first TV image ever. It was a grayscale image of a dummy named Stooky Bill.

Baird built a television studio in Long Acre (Covent Garden) and experimented with a small transmitter, but he soon realised that he needed a much more powerful transmitter to broadcast his ...