Google's Tuesday search homepage takeover commemorates the 90th anniversary of a hugely important moment in the history of television: the first mechanical TV demonstration. In addition to the ...

An unidentified man (possibly John Logie Baird) holds Stooky Bill (left) and another ventriloquist’s dummy used in Baird’s first TV transmissions. John Logie Baird made history by transmitting the ...

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 by ...

This was the first object to be transmitted as an image in early television experiments by John Logie Baird.This St John Ambulance Maltese Cross belonged to John Logie Baird's doctor, Dr George Locke, ...

October 2: British inventor John Logie Baird successfully tested the world’s first television on this day in 1925. He first transmitted a moving picture of a ventriloquist’s dummy before filming his ...

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