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It's fairly common knowledge that the man responsible for designing, creating and building the first TV set was indeed John Logie Baird, but here are a few interesting facts you might not know about him.
John Logie Baird was born near Glasgow, in Helensburgh, on the 13th of August 1946, and is buried at the Baird family grave in his hometime of Helensburgh. Educated at Larchfield Academy in his native Helensburgh, his degree studies were left incomplete by the occurance of World War I. He later moved South to Hastings and London, before finally passing away at the age of 57 on the 14th June 1946, in Bexhill, Sussex.
Although widely renowned for inventing the world's first recognisable TV, John Logie Baird also invented the earliest technology behind the world's first colour TV too.
John's achievements saw him enlisted into the 100 Greatest Britons back in 2002 (a list topped by Sir Winston Churchill, and featuring notable names including William Shakespeare and Sir Isaac Newton), and also the Scottish Science Hall of Fame.
In 1923, using everyday items including a pair of scissors, lenses from a bicycle light, an old tea chest and a hatbox, John Logie Baird carried out a private demonstration for the Radio Times of moving silhouette images, transmitted by a semi-mechanical TV system. Some time later, from his upstairs laboratory at 22 Frith Street in London (now the setting of an Italian restaurant and bar) he successfully transmitted the first ever live television picture (that of 20 year old office worker William Edward). The first long-distance transmission, sent via 438 miles of telephone line between Glasgow and London, followed soon after in 1927.
Although Baird's most famous invention is undoubtedly the television, his extraordinary visionary talents also saw him invent the following:
Phonovision (an early video recorder onto a large Nipkow disc, via a record cutting lathe) thermal socks (after years of suffering from cold feet) and countless more in the fields of radar, infrared and fibre-optics.
John Logie Baird spent his final years living in Behill, East Sussex and died in 1946 following a stroke during that same year.
Whilst the TV sets we know of today are far removed from those early sets, with massive home cinema systems, HD and 3D transmissions via satellite, none of this would be possible had it not been for the efforts and inventiveness of Baird. Modern TV today is an enourmous, global industry with a multitude of companies dealing with all aspects from film making to TV wall brackets being made and sold.
John Logie Baird was born near Glasgow, in Helensburgh, on the 13th of August 1946, and is buried at the Baird family grave in his hometime of Helensburgh. Educated at Larchfield Academy in his native Helensburgh, his degree studies were left incomplete by the occurance of World War I. He later moved South to Hastings and London, before finally passing away at the age of 57 on the 14th June 1946, in Bexhill, Sussex.
Although widely renowned for inventing the world's first recognisable TV, John Logie Baird also invented the earliest technology behind the world's first colour TV too.
John's achievements saw him enlisted into the 100 Greatest Britons back in 2002 (a list topped by Sir Winston Churchill, and featuring notable names including William Shakespeare and Sir Isaac Newton), and also the Scottish Science Hall of Fame.
In 1923, using everyday items including a pair of scissors, lenses from a bicycle light, an old tea chest and a hatbox, John Logie Baird carried out a private demonstration for the Radio Times of moving silhouette images, transmitted by a semi-mechanical TV system. Some time later, from his upstairs laboratory at 22 Frith Street in London (now the setting of an Italian restaurant and bar) he successfully transmitted the first ever live television picture (that of 20 year old office worker William Edward). The first long-distance transmission, sent via 438 miles of telephone line between Glasgow and London, followed soon after in 1927.
Although Baird's most famous invention is undoubtedly the television, his extraordinary visionary talents also saw him invent the following:
Phonovision (an early video recorder onto a large Nipkow disc, via a record cutting lathe) thermal socks (after years of suffering from cold feet) and countless more in the fields of radar, infrared and fibre-optics.
John Logie Baird spent his final years living in Behill, East Sussex and died in 1946 following a stroke during that same year.
Whilst the TV sets we know of today are far removed from those early sets, with massive home cinema systems, HD and 3D transmissions via satellite, none of this would be possible had it not been for the efforts and inventiveness of Baird. Modern TV today is an enourmous, global industry with a multitude of companies dealing with all aspects from film making to TV wall brackets being made and sold.
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