John Logie Baird
Scottish inventor, demonstrating the world's first working television (1888–1946)
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United KingdomHe made pictures fly through the air. On 26 January 1926, Baird demonstrated the world's first working mechanical television — then kept going: the first colour system, the first transatlantic broadcast, the tube that made electronic colour possible.
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Born in Scotland on 13 August 1888, Baird trained as an electrical engineer and turned his attention to transmitting moving images by wire and wave. On 26 January 1926, he pulled it off: the first mechanical television system that actually worked. Two years later, in 1928, his Baird Television Development Company sent a television signal across the Atlantic. He followed with the first publicly demonstrated colour television system, then invented the first viable purely electronic colour picture tube — the technology that would eventually replace his own mechanical approach. By the time he died…
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