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  2. John Logie Baird - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 February 2025. Scottish inventor, known for first demonstrating television (1888–1946) John Logie Baird FRSE Baird in 1917 Born (1888-08-13) 13 August 1888 Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, Scotland Died 14 June 1946 (1946-06-14) (aged 57) Bexhill, Sussex, England Resting place Baird family grave in ...

  3. Philo Farnsworth - Wikipedia

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    In 1932, while in England to raise money for his legal battles with RCA, Farnsworth met with John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor who had given the world's first public demonstration of a working television system in London in 1926, using an electro-mechanical imaging system, and who was seeking to develop electronic television receivers ...

  4. Phonovision - Wikipedia

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    Phonovision was a patented concept to create pre-recorded mechanically scanned television recordings on gramophone records. [1] Attempts at developing Phonovision were undertaken in the late 1920s in London by its inventor, Scottish television pioneer John Logie Baird. [1]

  5. History of television - Wikipedia

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    Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrated the world's first color transmission on July 3, 1928, using scanning discs at the transmitting and receiving ends with three spirals of apertures, each spiral with filters of a different primary color; and three light sources at the receiving end, with a commutator to alternate their illumination ...

  6. List of Scottish inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    The television: John Logie Baird (1923) The refrigerator: William Cullen (1748) [167] The flush toilet: Alexander Cumming (1775) [168] The vacuum flask: Sir James Dewar (1847–1932) [169] The first distiller to triple distill Irish whiskey: [170] John Jameson (Whisky distiller) The piano footpedal: John Broadwood (1732–1812) [171]

  7. List of years in television - Wikipedia

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    Broadcast live by the BBC using John Logie Baird's 30-line mechanical television system, part of this performance was recorded onto a 7" aluminum disc using a primitive home recording process called Silvatone. This footage, which runs to just under four minutes, is the oldest surviving recording of broadcast television.

  8. John Legend Reveals the 1 Song That Brings Him ‘Comfort to ...

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    John Legend has a special place in his heart for one specific song.. While chatting with reporters in the press room at the 2025 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 2, the singer, 46, opened up ...

  9. Television - Wikipedia

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    Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrated the world's first color transmission on 3 July 1928, using scanning discs at the transmitting and receiving ends with three spirals of apertures, each spiral with filters of a different primary color, and three light sources at the receiving end, with a commutator to alternate their illumination ...