Fascinating
facts about John Logie Baird inventor of a mechanical television in 1925. |
John Logie Baird |
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AT A GLANCE:
John Logie
Baird is the Scottish inventor who obtained the world's first real
television picture in his laboratory in October, 1925, and demonstrated it
to the British public on January 26, 1926. The image obtained was a small
30-line vertically-scanned red and black image, but it was television
Source:
British Broadcasting Company
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Inventor: |
John Logie
Baird |
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Criteria: |
First to
invent. |
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Birth: |
August 13,
1888 in Helensburgh, Argyll, Scotland. |
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Death: |
June 14,
1946 in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, England |
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Nationality: |
Scottish |
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This page revised December 6, 2006. |
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