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 mirror screw produced much larger, brighter images than the Nipkow disc, but the writing was already on the wall for mechanical television. By 1935, cathode ray tubes – still scanning their images ...

Television is developed 1926. John Logie Baird (1888-1946) applied for a patent for a mechanical television in 1923. ... with a 40-line resolution and film running at 14 frames per second.

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… ...

In the June 1925 issue of Popular Science, Newton Burke wrote: "J.L. Baird, inventor of the promising new system of radiovision." Television’s broadcast debut in 1936 unfolded like a plot made ...