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
Baird in 1917
The first known photograph of a moving image produced by Baird's "televisor", as reported in The Times, 28 January 1926 (The subject is Baird's business partner Oliver Hutchinson.)
Blue plaque marking Baird's first demonstration of television at 22 Frith Street, Westminster, W1, London
Baird demonstrating his mechanical television system in New York, 1931
The Logie Awards is an annual ceremony celebrating and honouring the best shows and stars in Australian television, sponsored and organised by the magazine TV Week. The event is telecast live and bill
John Logie Baird
…occupied by apartments named Baird Court. Logie Baird is buried beside his parents in Helensburgh Cemetery, Argyll, Scotland. Australian television's Logie Awards were named in honour of John Logie Baird's contribution to the invention of the television. Baird became the only posthumous subject of This Is Your…
Gold Logie Award statuette