John MacKay portrayed John Logie Baird in both the ITV series Nolly and the Doctor Who episode "The Giggle"
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John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer and innovator who demonstrated the world's first mechanical television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first viable purely electronic colour television picture tube.
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business · Scottish inventor (1888–1946) · physicist · entrepreneur · writer · inventor · also John Logie Baird, Baird
Born 13 August 1888 · Died 14 June 1946 · Q133544
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2023· 1 entry
2021· 1 entry
The Royal Mint unveiled a John Logie Baird 50p coin commemorating the 75th anniversary of his death
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2017· 1 entry
IEEE unveiled a bronze street plaque at 22 Frith Street (Bar Italia), London, dedicated to Baird and the invention of television
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2015· 1 entry
Was inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame
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2014· 1 entry
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) inducted Logie Baird into The Honor Roll, which "posthumously recognizes individuals who were not awarded Honorary Membership during their lifetimes but whos
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2013· 1 entry
Historic Environment Scotland awarded a plaque to commemorate Logie Baird
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2007· 1 entry
And the site is now occupied by apartments named Baird Court
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2006· 1 entry
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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1948· 1 entry
Scophony acquired John Logie Baird Ltd
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1946· 1 entry
Died 1946-06-14.
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1943· 1 entry
The Hankey Committee was appointed to oversee the resumption of television broadcasts after the war
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1941· 1 entry
Patented and demonstrated this system of three-dimensional television at a definition of 500 lines
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1939· 1 entry
Showed a system known today as hybrid colour using a cathode-ray tube in front of which revolved a disc fitted with colour filters, a method taken up by CBS and RCA in the United States
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1936· 1 entry
But was unable to fully solve the problem; the fire that burned Crystal Palace to the ground later that year further hampered the Baird company's ability to compete
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1930· 1 entry
At the London Coliseum, Berlin, Paris, and Stockholm
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1928· 2 entries
The Baird Television Development Company achieved the first transatlantic television transmission
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Made the first transatlantic television transmission, from London to Hartsdale, New York, and in 1929 the first television programmes officially transmitted by the BBC
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1927· 1 entry
Baird transmitted Britain's first long-distance television pictures over 438 miles (705 km) of telephone line between London and the Central Hotel at Glasgow Central station
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1926· 1 entry
Baird filed a patent for a device that formed images from reflected radio waves, a device remarkably similar to radar, and that he was in correspondence with the British government at the time
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1888· 1 entry
Born 1888-08-13.
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