John Logie Baird Biography Inventor Television

John Logie Baird (born August 13, 1888 in Helensburgh, Scotland; June 14th, 1946 in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England) was a Scottish inventor and television pioneer.

At Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College (now University of Strathclyde) and the University of Glasgow-trained Baird worked during World War II as an employee of a power station (Clyde Valley Electrical Power Company), before becoming self-made??, to his experiments on the technical development of television pay based on the Nipkow disk more time to. In the spring of 1925, enabling him to his equipment for a few weeks in Selfridges department store in London, where Baird had moved to Hastings from now, publicly perform. In the fall, he managed to improve the apparatus so far that it enabled a contoured playback. After a successful demonstration of mechanical television to members of the Royal Institution on 26 January 1926 came together enough capital to set up the Baird Television Development Company. On 8 February 1928 Baird was the transatlantic transmission of a television picture from London to New York. The image was running through telephone lines to a short-wave transmitter in Coulsdon, from where it was blasted over the Atlantic. In the same year, with the first color TV (with synchronous rotating color filters in front of the camera and receiver) is another milestone in the History of television.

When Baird’s greatest merit is likely in addition to his undoubtedly remarkable inventions to be above all that public appeal, he demonstrated the possibilities of television, it was so popular, and therefore the technical development as a whole very accelerated. The major television awards from Australia, the Logie Awards are named after John Logie Baird. The survey by the BBC for the 100 most important Britons in 2002 it occupied the 44th Baird Place.