John Logie Baird
Scottish inventor, demonstrating the world's first working television (1888–1946)
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Scottish engineer who pulled off the first mechanical TV demonstration in 1926 and later cracked colour television. The guy basically showed the world moving pictures could travel through air.
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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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