John Logie Baird Facts
John Logie Baird Facts
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| Baird was born in Helensburgh, Scotland and was the youngest son of the Reverent John Baird. |
| He was educated at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College and the University of Glasgow but he did not receive a degree and left the university at the start of World War I. |
| Although the television was the result of many inventions, Baird was prominent in the field. |
| He was the first to produce a live image from reflected light. |
| His major technological breakthrough was improvements in the photoelectric cell and improvements in the signal conditioning. |
| In 1923 Baird moved to Hastings, England and rented a workshop. |
| He built the first working television which incorporated many household items including a hat box, some darning needles and glue. |
| In February 1924 he demonstrated an analogue television system to the Radio Times. |
| In July 1924 he received a 1000 volt electric shock but survived with only burns. |
| The owner of the workshop asked him to leave. |
| On March 25, 1925 he set up a three-week demonstration of the television at Selfridges department store in London where the public got its first look at the new invention. |
| On October 2, 1925, Baird successfully transmitted the first television image. |
| The image was a 30-line vertically scanned image and five pictures per second could be scanned. |
| Baird tried to get publicity for his invention from the Daily Express but the idea of a machine that could "see by wireless" was so foreign that the editor dismissed Baird as a lunatic. |
| On January 26, 1926 Baird demonstrated his television for the Royal Institution and a reporter for the London Times. |
| By the time of this demonstration he had improved the scan rate to 12.5 images per second. |
| On July 3, 1928 he had introduced color television. |
| In 1927 he sent a long-distance television signal over the 438 miles from London to Glasgow. |
| In 1928 his company, Baird Television Development Company, LTD, sent the first transatlantic transmission and in 1929 he and Bernard Natan started France's first television company. |
| In 1930 he set up the world's first television theater system and by 1939 his system used a projection screen 15 ft x 12 ft. |
| On August 16, 1944 he demonstrated the world's first fully electronic color television. |
| During World War II Baird worked on radar and infrared night viewing devices. |
| Australia's Logie Awards are named for him and in 2014 he was posthumously inducted into the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. |
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