Charles Francis Jenkins’ and John Logie Baird’s original pioneering efforts, and the excitement they generated, are still rightly heralded by many people today.

The story reached its climax when a fire at London’s Crystal Palace destroyed parts of television inventor John Logie Baird’s research laboratory on November 30, 1936. The timing could not ...

John Logie Baird operating his mechanical television system in 1931. Wikimedia , CC BY-SA Baird continued to work as a TV pioneer in the 1930s and 1940s, dedicated to exploring colour television ...

Many inventors, as it turns out, are not one-hit wonders.Several of them, even the most famous, have a litany of other, sadly lesser-known, great inventions to their name. Here are but a few of them.

Students at John Logie Baird's former university have recreated a working version of his original 1926 television. The final-year engineers from the University of Strathclyde have built a ...

Images of ‘Stooky Bill,’ the head of a ventriloquist’s dummy created by the inventor, were the first to be successfully transmitted by television. Molly Barry said: “The further into the work we got, ...

Lewis Gibney added: “Recreating John Logie Baird’s invention was an interesting, grounding and inspiring experience and a real source of pride to be from Scotland’s west coast.” The mechanical ...

Lewis Gibney said: “Recreating John Logie Baird’s invention was an interesting, grounding and inspiring experience and a real source of pride to be from Scotland’s west coast.” The centenary of his ...

A lawyer says the images will be transferred to a South Carolina museum devoted to African ... Harvard ends legal battle over early photos of ... U.S. in 2018. John Shishmanian/USA Today ...