It's no secret that the man who famously created the first TV was the Scotsman, Mr John Logie Baird, and here are a few details about John's history that you you may not know about him.
John was born just North of Glasgow, in the town of Helensburgh, on the 13th of August 1946, and is buried at the Baird family grave in the same town he was born in. Educated at Larchfield Academy in his native Helensburgh, his final studies were interrupted by World War I. He later relocated down South to Hastings then London (Soho to be precise), before finally he died at the age of 57 on the 14th June 1946, in Bexhill, Sussex.
Although widely renowned for inventing the world's first recognisable TV, John Logie Baird also invented the earliest technology behind the world's first colour TV too.
John's achievements saw him enlisted into the 100 Greatest Britons back in 2002 (a list topped by Sir Winston Churchill, and featuring notable names including William Shakespeare and Sir Isaac Newton), and also the Scottish Science Hall of Fame.
In 1923, using everyday items including a pair of scissors, lenses from a bicycle light, an old tea chest and a hatbox, Baird carried out a private demonstration for the Radio Times of moving silhouette images, transmitted by a semi-mechanical television system. A few years later, from his upstairs laboratory at 22 Frith Street in London (now the home of an Italian Restaurant) he successfully transmitted the first ever live television picture (that of 20 year old office worker William Edward). The first long-distance transmission, sent via 438 miles of telephone line between Glasgow and London, took place in 1927.
Although Baird's most famous invention is undoubtedly the television, his extraordinary visionary talents also saw him invent the following:
Phonovision (an early video recorder onto a large Nipkow disc, via a record cutting lathe) thermal socks (after years of suffering from cold feet) and countless more in the fields of radar, infrared and fibre-optics.
John spent his twilight years living in Behill, East Sussex and passed away in 1946 following a stroke during that same year.
Whilst the LCD, HD and Plasma TV screens we use these days are far removed from those early sets, with giant home cinema systems, hi-def and 3D transmissions via satellite, none of this would be possible had it not been for the efforts and inventiveness of John Logie Baird. The entertainment sector today is an enourmous, global industry with a multitude of companies dealing with all aspects from film making to TV wall brackets being made and sold.
John was born just North of Glasgow, in the town of Helensburgh, on the 13th of August 1946, and is buried at the Baird family grave in the same town he was born in. Educated at Larchfield Academy in his native Helensburgh, his final studies were interrupted by World War I. He later relocated down South to Hastings then London (Soho to be precise), before finally he died at the age of 57 on the 14th June 1946, in Bexhill, Sussex.
Although widely renowned for inventing the world's first recognisable TV, John Logie Baird also invented the earliest technology behind the world's first colour TV too.
John's achievements saw him enlisted into the 100 Greatest Britons back in 2002 (a list topped by Sir Winston Churchill, and featuring notable names including William Shakespeare and Sir Isaac Newton), and also the Scottish Science Hall of Fame.
In 1923, using everyday items including a pair of scissors, lenses from a bicycle light, an old tea chest and a hatbox, Baird carried out a private demonstration for the Radio Times of moving silhouette images, transmitted by a semi-mechanical television system. A few years later, from his upstairs laboratory at 22 Frith Street in London (now the home of an Italian Restaurant) he successfully transmitted the first ever live television picture (that of 20 year old office worker William Edward). The first long-distance transmission, sent via 438 miles of telephone line between Glasgow and London, took place in 1927.
Although Baird's most famous invention is undoubtedly the television, his extraordinary visionary talents also saw him invent the following:
Phonovision (an early video recorder onto a large Nipkow disc, via a record cutting lathe) thermal socks (after years of suffering from cold feet) and countless more in the fields of radar, infrared and fibre-optics.
John spent his twilight years living in Behill, East Sussex and passed away in 1946 following a stroke during that same year.
Whilst the LCD, HD and Plasma TV screens we use these days are far removed from those early sets, with giant home cinema systems, hi-def and 3D transmissions via satellite, none of this would be possible had it not been for the efforts and inventiveness of John Logie Baird. The entertainment sector today is an enourmous, global industry with a multitude of companies dealing with all aspects from film making to TV wall brackets being made and sold.
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