John Logie Baird demonstrated the world's first mechanical television system on 26 January 1926.
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John Logie Baird - Frith Street - IEEE
From The Register: "On the afternoon of 26 January 2017 – exactly 91 years to...
John Logie Baird - Frith Street - LCC
In 1926 in this house John Logie Baird, 1888 - 1946, first demonstrated telev...
John Logie Baird - Frith Street - WOS
World's first demonstration of Television, 22 Frith Street, Soho, John Logie ...
John Logie Baird - N10
John Logie Baird John (Logie) Baird, the inventor of the first television, wa...
John Logie Baird NW9 - plaque
This picture of the plaque is taken from the NW9 section of the excellent and...
Other Subjects
George Bentham
Botanist. Born in Stoke, near Plymouth. His family moved to St Petersburg in 1805, where he becam proficient in several languages. In France he studied at the universities of Tours and Montpelier. ...
1 memorial
John Couch Adams
Mathematician and astronomer. Born Cornwall and died Cambridge. His most famous achievement was predicting the existence and position of Neptune, using only mathematics. He also explained the origi...
1 memorial
Sir Edward Appleton
Born Bradford. Physicist. Professor at King's College London. Nobel Laureate Ionospheric radio, 1924. Died Edinburgh.
1 memorial
Thomas Earnshaw
Born Ashton under Lyme, Lancashire. Maker of watches and chronometers. Lived and worked mainly in London and Greenwich. He seems to have been a bitter man with whom it was unpleasant to do business...
2 memorials
Edward Westermarck
Philosopher and sociologist. Â Born Helsinki. Â Learnt English in order to read Darwin and others. Â Came to England in 1897 and frequently thereafter. Â Probably homosexual himself, he wrote on subjec...
1 memorial
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