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New multi-million pound galleries featuring exhibits such as the xenomorph costume from the Alien movies and Dracula’s teeth ...
John Logie Baird, the first person to wirelessly broadcast moving pictures, died in 1946 without any financial stake in what would become one of the 20th century’s most profitable industries.
John Logie Baird, the inventor of the television, was the creator of several failed business ventures. Among these were undersocks for cold feet, pneumatic shoes, and glass razors. # ...
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 ...
It employed state-of-the-art Victorian technology to present plays and musical entertainment to audiences of up to 3,000. The theatre closed during the First World War and didn't reopen until 1922.
Buried within the labyrinth of pages on the Glasgow City Council website there’s a Roll of Honour for our famous citizens. This is the official list of Glaswegian celebrities according to City ...
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 ...
John Logie Baird experimenting with his mechanical television system in 1929. If Baird’s machinery looks rather improvised and Heath Robinson-like, that’s because it was.
John “Kevin” Baird, passed away Saturday, April 19, 2025, at Eagle Pointe Nursing Facility. He was born April 28, 1958, to the late John E. Baird and Freda ...
These are just a few of her groundbreaking television feats, some go further back to the earlier days of broadcasting in the UK with her work with John Logie Baird in the 1940s seeing her the ...