John logie baird brief biography of martin
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Television was born in a rented attic in London’s Soho on 2 October
The moment happened when the Scottish engineer, John Logie Baird, a driven maverick inventor, produced an image of the face of a ventriloquist’s dummy that he called Stooky Bill.
Early life and experiments
John Logie Baird was clever, with a curious mind.
As a young child, he was fascinated by technology and was a fledgeling inventor, even installing electric lighting in his parents’ Scottish home when he was a teenager.
Dogged by ill health since childhood and unfit to serve in the First World War ( to ), Baird eventually rented a property in Hastings in , hoping the sea air would boost his constitution.
Here, the budding entrepreneur aspired to make money, inventing a glass razor blade that would never rust and pneumatic shoes with inflated balloons to aid walking. All came to nothing.
But Baird’s dream, along with other early innovators, was to create a way of transmitting and receiving moving image
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JOHN LOGIE BAIRD (–) — Sponsored by Mark Read Seven Dials Trustee
Location: Nos West Street, abutting Upper St Martin's Lane, formerly Motograph House
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John Logie Baird was the uppfinnare of the Televisor, the first practical television apparatus for the instantaneous transmission of scenes or objects over a distance bygd wire or wireless. He also invented the Noctovisor, an apparatus for seeing in the dark by invisible rays. Baird founded Television Ltd in Soho in and gave the first demonstration of true Television on 26 January The next month he moved his company to the upper floor of Motograph House (often listed as in Upper Saint Martins' Lane) and was here until Janua
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On 26th January John Logie Baird first demonstrated his invention of the television in public.
Born in Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, 13 August , Baird was a prolific inventor. In , Baird was named as one of the 10 greatest Scottish scientists in history, having been listed in the National Library of Scotland&#;s &#;Scottish Science Hall of Fame&#;.
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In his laboratory on 2 October , Baird successfully transmitted the first television picture with a greyscale image: the head of a ventriloquist&#;s dummy nicknamed &#;Stooky Bill&#; in a line vertically scanned image, at five pictures per second.
Baird gave the first public demonstration of moving silhouette images by television at Selfridges department store in London in a three-week series of demonstrations beginning on 25 March
On 26 January , Baird gave the first public demonstration of true television images for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times in his laborat