People are already speculating about a name for our new town hall / arts centre - so let me make an early pitch for John ...

Walk around Soho and Covent Garden and one name pops up time and time again. John Logie Baird, Scottish-born inventor of television, seems to have broadcast his achievements to half the streets in ...

How John Logie Baird's mechanical television showed the ... And when it did so, there was no single 'inventor' of television. A large number of experimenters, entrepreneurs, and public ...

And when it did so, there was no single 'inventor' of television ... In 1924, a young Scottish engineer, John Logie Baird, developed a way of passing a beam of light through a rapidly spinning ...

On Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz network of concentration camps in Poland, freeing some 7,000 survivors.

The Association of Scottish Philatelic Societies (ASPS) is hosting their annual congress in the Vine Conference Centre, Dunfermline, on Friday, April 4, from 10am to 5pm and Saturday, April 5, from ...

In 1888, The National Geographic Society was founded in Washington. In 1926, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird launched a revolution in communication and entertainment with the first public ...

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It took four years for the BBC to abandon the mechanical Baird TV system, why it happened and why it was crucial. The story of how the BBC abandoned Baird’s system for the technically superior ...

John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor, gives the first public demonstration of a pictorial-transmission machine he calls a televisor. Baird's invention used mechanical rotating disks to scan moving ...

The United Kingdom has been home to some of the most amazing inventions in history. From life-changing gadgets to fun treats, ...