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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. 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]

  4. Mechanical television - Wikipedia

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    Mechanical television or mechanical scan television is an obsolete television system that relies on a mechanical scanning device, such as a rotating disk with holes in it or a rotating mirror drum, to scan the scene and generate the video signal, and a similar mechanical device at the receiver to display the picture.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Stooky Bill - Wikipedia

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    John Logie Baird invented some of the first experimental television systems. In 1924 he developed a mechanical television system to transmit moving images by means of electrical signals, which he demonstrated on 25 March 1925 at a London department store, Selfridges. It consisted of a spinning disk set with a spiral pattern of 30 lenses.

  7. 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 ...

  8. 1927 in television - Wikipedia

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    The first demonstration of television before a large audience. Nearly 600 members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers view the demonstration at the Bell Telephone Building in New York City. 24: John Logie Baird transmits a television signal from London to Glasgow by telephone line. September 07

  9. 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]