Five facts you need to know about John Logie Baird. His first TV set was made of scissors, an old tea chest and some sealing wax. Jess Staufenberg. Tuesday 26 January 2016 09:25 GMT.

The original television model, invented by the Scottish television pioneer John Logie Baird, (1888 - 1946). Hulton Archive / Getty Images. By Lily Rothman. January 26, 2016 4:00 AM EST.

Google's Tuesday search homepage takeover commemorates the 90th anniversary of a hugely important moment in the history of television: the first mechanical TV demonstration. In addition to the ...

Because it’s John Logie Baird who invented the mechanical television set in the first place, which he unveiled to the world 90 years ago today. Here are eight facts about the man behind the ...

Ninety years ago, in a small laboratory in Soho, Scottish inventor, John Logie Baird, ... Baird developed colour TV and brought out the world's first mass produced television set in 1929.

Phil Edwards was a senior producer for the Vox video team. On March 25, 1925, John Logie Baird set up an unusual contraption in the Selfridges department store in London. It was a gimmick for ...

Inventor John Logie Baird and his first publicly demonstrated television system, with which he transmitted moving pictures March 25, 1925 at the London department store Selfridges. (Orrin Dunlap ...

Hastings is certainly the spot where John Logie Baird first showed a working television system to the public. But now, 100 years on, we can also say it was in Folkestone where his revolutionary ...

Without John Logie Baird kickstarting the home TV revolution, we would never have borne witness to the JFK assassination in Dallas, Nelson Mandela's release from prison, the World Trade Centre ...

John Logie Baird: the only person ... when Baird broadcast a television programme — the first ever — from his offices above 133 Long Acre. ... filmed and viewed in the same set of rooms.

It was January 26, 1926 when John Logie Baird first demonstrated his working television set. Three years later came the decision that the BBC would broadcast regular television programmes, made by ...

TO the residents of a quiet street in Shipley, it was an ordinary morning in the autumn of 1929. But behind the front door of one house, history was… ...