See the first TV image from John Logie Baird's early 'Televisor' demonstrations. The first TV images were described by a journalist in 1926 as 'faint and often blurred' ...

In the mid-1920s, the Scottish inventor John Logie Baird had an idea. If he could rig up a series of revolving discs, each with a lens around their edges, they could break down the light reflected ...

How John Logie Baird's 20-year-old assistant was thrust into life of fame after TV inventor broadcast his image in 1926 William Taynton sat in front of the camera in order for Baird to monitor the ...

Phil Edwards was a senior producer for the Vox video team. On March 25, 1925, John Logie Baird set up an unusual contraption in the Selfridges department store in London. It was a gimmick for ...

In 1924, a young Scottish engineer, John Logie Baird, developed a way of passing a beam of light through a rapidly spinning disc punched with holes, so that a simple image could be ‘scanned ...

John Logie Baird, a Scottish engineer and inventor, performed the first test of a working television system on October 2, 1925. He did so in his London lab*, where he successfully transmitted the ...

The plaque he’s referring to states: “John Logie Baird 1888- 1946. The pioneer of television conducted some of his early experiments on these premises during 1924.” John Logie Baird pictured ...

Students at the University of Strathclyde have reconstructed a working version of John Logie Baird’s original mechanical television, ahead of the centenary of the Scots inventor’s ...

Scottish engineer John Logie Baird invented the first working TV in 1924 and, five years later, the Baird Televisor went on sale. Initially TVs were a luxury item for the wealthy, but thanks to ...

How John Logie Baird's mechanical television showed the way, but ultimately to a dead end. Humanity’s deep desire for connection means the idea of seeing images at a distance has a long history ...