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 ...

The very first electronic colour television was switched on 74 years ago today as Scots inventor John Logie Baird demonstrated his latest creation.

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. He had ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The 'money to develop it' would come from the sale of television sets (or as Baird called them 'Televisors'). However, there was a major snag. In order to sell the sets you have to have programmes ...

Senior-Constable Beau Lamarre-Condon was charged with the murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.

A portrait of TV pioneer John Logie Baird and his biggest backer Sydney Moseley.

A portrait of TV pioneer John Logie Baird and his biggest backer Sydney Moseley. As one of the pioneers of television, John Logie Baird has been written about a great deal over the years. The ...