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...
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Sir William Reid
A member of the Executive Committee for the Great Exhibition 1851.Born Kinglassie, Fifeshire. Soldier, Fellow of the Royal Society (of Science) and Governor of Bermuda, Barbados & Malta.
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1 memorial
Admiral Robert Fitzroy
Hydrographer and meteorologist. Born Ampton Hall, Suffolk. He attended the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth and eventually took command of The Beagle, with Charles Darwin as a passenger. In his late...
2 memorials
Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton
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1 memorial
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Equitable Life, the world's oldest mutual insurer, started business in 1762 in the parsonage of St Nicholas Acons in Nicholas Lane. It pioneered scientific life assurance by basing premiums on age ...
1 memorial
Joseph Priestley
Born at Fieldhead, in the parish of Birstal, not far from Leeds, Yorkshire. Emigrated to US in 1794. Died Northumberland, Pennsylvania. Chemist. Discovered oxygen. Had a stutter all his life. Inve...
4 memorials
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