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  • British Association Lecture, Leeds, 1927
  • John Logie Baird in America, 1931
  • Television in 1932, BBC Annual Report, 1933
  • The Wonder of Television, 1933
  • Television To-day and To-morrow, 1939
  • The Televisor: Successful Test of New Apparatus 1926
  • Next We'll See to Paris, 1927
  • Transatlantic Television in 1928
  • How Stereoscopic Television is Shown, 1928
  • Baird's Trip to Trinidad in 1919
  • Alice, Who art Thou? An old mystery
  • The Man with the Flower in his Mouth, 1930
  • Televising the Derby, 1931
  • Televising the Derby, 1932
  • H.G. Wells and J.L. Baird
  • What was Early Television Actually Like?
  • 1932 Television Demonstrated in 1952
  • Crystal Palace Television Studios
  • Television on the West End Stage in 1935
  • What did JLB really do in World War II?
  • High Definition Colour Television, 1940–1944
  • John Logie Baird—the final months, 1945–1946
  • Life with an Inventive Father, 1985
  • Down the pub with John Logie Baird?
  • A Personal Journey, 2000
  • The Making of JLB: The Man Who Saw The Future, 2002
  • John Logie Baird the innovator
  • John Logie Baird and his Contributions to Television
  • Print versus Television: from Baird to McLuhan
  • SMPTE and IEEE recognitions of JLB's work
  • Television at the 1939 New York World's Fair
  • Four Key Players in Early Television Development
  • Terry-Thomas and the Baird Portable
  • University of Strathclyde exhibition, 1990
  • Malcolm Baird looks back on 90 years of UK television
  • Television—75 years after Alexandra Palace
  • The Farnsworth Invention Saga
  • Television, Radar and J.L. Baird, 1923–46
  • Baird Television Ltd. and Radar
  • Television and Me—The Memoirs of John Logie Baird
  • Book and Film Reviews
  • Other Television Inventors & Links
  • BBC television
  • Selfridges

Baird television



a website about television history



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This site is primarily about John Logie Baird (1888–1946), the Scotsman who was the first person in the world to demonstrate a working television system. On January 26th, 1926, a viable television system was demonstrated using mechanical picture scanning with electronic amplification at the transmitter and at the receiver. It could be sent by radio or over ordinary telephone lines, leading to the historic trans-Atlantic transmissions of television from London to New York in February, 1928.


You will discover herein not only information on Baird and his life's work, but also snippets and stories about other pioneers of television and the development of the television industry to the present day. Updates are made to the site every few months by its creators Malcolm H.I. Baird and Iain L. Baird who are respectively the son and grandson of J.L. Baird.



Television history news



The main page contains news and current events information, anniversaries, new publications etc. concerning John Logie Baird and other figures in television history.



Original articles



The links above access a gallery of longer articles, some of which go back to the early 1920s. There are also numerous references to other prominent figures in the history of television.



Books and websites



There are links to book and film reviews concerning John Logie Baird and television history in general, as well as a list of links to some excellent other websites.



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