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 ...

when was the first tv invented? It was 1927 when Scottish engineer John Baird provided the world with the first demonstration ...

Importantly, however, it allowed viewers to switch between the Baird (now 240 lines) and Marconi-EMI high definition systems that alternated each week for the first four months of the Television ...

The BBC Archive recently shared a vintage clip from 1970 in which two of the assistants of [John Logie Baird], the inventor of the first demonstrable television system, demonstrated its various ...

The attorney and former Vermont lawmaker worked on a wide range of issues, from advocating for women who survived domestic abuse to supporting new Americans in the Burlington area.

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

As one of the pioneers of television, John Logie Baird has been written about a great deal over the years. The image we get from these accounts is of an unworldly, somewhat lonely figure dedicated ...

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 the ...

A 28-year-old police officer has been charged with two counts of murder over the suspicious disappearance of Australian TV presenter Jesse Baird and his partner Luke Davies. Beau Lamarre-Condon ...