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John Logie Baird in 1917. Photo unattributed –

Top 10 Astonishing about John Logie Baird

A lot of scientists aspired to invent television. This is what John Logie Baird made to pass. His dream of creating the television came to pass.

John was a Scottish engineer who invented the first mechanical television 90 years ago. This television was able to transmit pictures of objects in motion.

He produced televised objects in outline in 1924, transmitted recognizable human faces in 1925, and demonstrated the television of moving objects in 1926 at the Royal Institution in London.  He thereafter demonstrated color television in 1928.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) used his televising technique to broadcast from 1929 to 1937.

1. Baird showed ingenuity at an early age

Scottish television pioneer John Logie Baird (left) and his television receiver. Photo by Orrin Dunlap, Jr. –

John Logie Baird was born on 14^th August 1888 in Helensburgh, Scotland. He was the fourth and youngest child of Rev. John and Jesse Baird.

When he was a child he manipulated the telephone exchange in a way that his bedroom was connected to those of his friends across the streets. This was a clear sign that Baird was already showing early signs of innovation.

2. The urge for Baird to continually be innovative went into his teenagehood

British television pioneer John Logie Baird showed his mechanical-scan television system in 1931. Photo by H. Winfield Secor –

By the time he was getting to his early teens, he had developed a fascination with electronics. He had begun to conduct experiments and build inventions.

After finishing his primary schooling, Baird studied electrical engineering at the Royal Technical College in Glasgow.

3. Baird鈥檚 studies were interrupted by a couple of things

British inventor John Logie Baird and his first publicly demonstrated television system, with which he transmitted moving pictures March 25, 1925 at the London department store Selfridges. Photo byOrrin Dunlap, Jr. –

John鈥檚 studies were interrupted by the outbreak of World War 1, however, he was rejected for service because of health issues.

He later on left to pursue his interests in England where he worked for a utility company and began a manufacturing business. Afterward, he moved to Trinidad and Tobago where he briefly operated a jam factory.

He then took a job as a superintendent engineer at Clyde Valley Electrical Power Compan and never looked back.

4. His inventions included cardboard, bicycle lamp, glue, string, and wax

John Logie Baird was an engineer and inventor who was a native of Helensburgh. His most notable achievement was to be the first person to demonstrate a working television system. This bust of Baird, by Donald Gilbert in 1943, stands on The Promenade at Helensburgh. Photo by Paul McIlroy – Wikimedia Commons

Baird returned to the United Kingdom in 1920 and began to explore how to transmit moving images along with sounds. What Baird lacked was corporate sponsors, however, he worked with the materials that he came across and was able to scrounge.

Cardboard, glue, string, a bicycle lamp, and wax were all part of his first 鈥渢elevisor鈥�. In 1924, he was able to transmit a flickering image a few feet away.

Thereafter in 1925, he succeeded in transmitting a televised image of a ventriloquist鈥檚 dummy, he said, 鈥淭he image of the dummy鈥檚 head formed itself on the screen with what appeared to be an almost unbelievable clarity. I had got it! I could scarcely believe my eyes and felt myself shaking with excitement鈥�.

5. John Baird鈥檚 exposure of success to the public was brave despite being attacked

A London County Council blue plaque for John Logie Baird at 22 Frith Street, Soho, London W1D 4RP in the City of Westminster. Photo by Gareth E Kegg –

Shortly after Baird鈥檚 success, he was able to demonstrate his invention to the public at Selfridge鈥檚 department store in London. In 1926, he then showed his creation to 50 scientists from Britain鈥檚 Royal Institution in London.

A journalist who was present at that time wrote down that 鈥淭he image as transmitted was faint and often blurred, but substantiated a claim that through the 鈥榯elevisor鈥� as Mr. Baird has named his apparatus, it is possible to transmit and reproduce instantly the details of movement, and such things as the play of expression on the face鈥�.

6. Baird is responsible for the first transatlantic television broadcast

The John Logie Baird. Photo by N Chadwick –

Over the next several years, Baird continued to make improvements to his televisor and kept increasing the distance that it could transmit content. In 1927, he managed to transmit an image of a total of 438 miles between London and Glasgow.

On 9^th February 1928, his Baird Television Development Company produced the first transatlantic television broadcast, from London to New York.

In 2015, a rare recording of this broadcast was going to be made available for sale to the public; an anonymous donor stepped in to stop that from happening.

7. The limitations that came with Baird鈥檚 first form of television

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Baird鈥檚 technology, while the first form of television, had some intrinsic limitations. This was because it was mechanical 鈥� electronic television and was developed by others 鈥� Baird鈥檚 visual images were fuzzy and flickering.

8. Baird invented the 3D television as well called the stereovision

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He did not rest but kept pushing for more inventions. On 10^th Aust, 1928, he demonstrated the first 3D television which he called, 鈥渟tereovision鈥�.

鈥淏y applying the stereoscope principle to television, it has now become possible to transmit television images with all the appearance of depth and solidity; and, by a further combination of colored television with stereoscopic television, the complete illusion of images in natural colors, and with depth and solidity becomes possible,鈥� wrote the Radio Times in November of 1928. 鈥淎ll this has been recently demonstrated in the Baird Laboratories.鈥�

It was in 1935 that a BBC committee compared Baird鈥檚 technology with Marconi 鈥� EMI鈥檚 electronic television and said that Baird鈥檚 product was inferior. In 1937, the BBC dropped it.

9. John Baird鈥檚 marriage life and the family he brought up

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In 1931, Baird who was 43 years by then married Margaret Albu. Margaret was a South African Pianist. The couple both had a daughter, Diana, and a son, Malcolm.

10. Baird鈥檚 achievements, what he ailed from leading to his passing away was very drastic

Information plaque describing the connection between John Logie Baird and Falkirk. Photo by Mark Begbie –

John Logie Baird was ranked 44 in a poll conducted by BBC in 2022 in the United Kingdom to rank the 100 Greatest Britons in history. In 2006, he was named as one of the 10 greatest Scottish scientists ever.

Australian television鈥檚 Logie Awards are named in his honor.

Baird suffered a stroke in February 1946 and later passed on the same year on 14th June. He was buried in Helensburgh Cemetery with his mother, father, and wife.