John Logie Baird

Scottish inventor (1888–1946)

John Logie Baird (13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) 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. In 1928, the Baird Television Development Company achieved the first transatlantic television transmission.

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