Early colour televisions for rent in Edinburgh at £1.53 per a week at at Grants department store in 1972. John Logie Baird demonstrated his first electronic colour TV almost 30 years earlier.

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.

It’s 75 years since John Logie Baird gave his first public demonstration of colour television so to celebrate we’re taking a look back at the pioneer and his innovative invention. Baird ...

If we have a television in 2021 the chances are that it will be a large LCD model, flat and widescreen, able to display HD images in stunning clarity. Before that we’d have had a CRT colour T… ...

Baird made another advancement when he televised color images in 1928. Read more: ... an electric television, which the BBC picked over Baird's design in February of 1937.

Baird's invention was superseded within a decade by the electric version of the TV. He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour TV system, and on July 3, 1928, he demonstrated the ...

Baird later developed color television and in 1929, rolled out the first television set for public purchase, priced at the then rather expensive £30 ($43).

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The very first electronic colour television was switched on 74 years ago today as Scots inventor John Logie Baird demonstrated his latest creation. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to ...

Google's Tuesday search homepage takeover commemorates the 90th anniversary of a hugely important moment in the history of television: the first mechanical TV demonstration. In addition to the ...