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John Logie Baird took his Televisor out of stealth on January 26, 1926. But the demonstration faced some serious skepticism.
In his lab 100 years ago, inventor John Logie Baird delivered the first public demonstration of true television. What exactly did viewers see that day?
In Soho, London, 100 years ago, John Logie Baird’s mechanical television system broadcast recognisable human faces for the ...
Today marks an auspicious anniversary which might have passed us by had it not been for [Diamond Geezer], who reminds us that ...
One hundred years after the birth of television in Britain, Magic Rays of Light author John Wyver looks back at the rapid development of the new medium during the 1930s – a lost era that saw a huge ...
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 for the ...
On a cold Tuesday in London in 1926, a tallish but sickly and eccentric Scotsman invited members of Britain’s Royal ...
We hope you enjoyed this look back at the last 100 years of television in science. From the early days of physicists ...
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