{"slug": "john-logie-baird", "label": "John Logie Baird", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logie_Baird", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133544", "qid": "Q133544", "description": "Scottish inventor, demonstrating the world's first working television (1888–1946)", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [1925, 1936], "span_label": ["1925 CE", "1936 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 6}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "royal-society", "label": "Royal Society", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "the-times", "label": "The Times", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1925, "year_label": "1925 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "October 2", "text": "October 2 – In London, UK, John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first television pictures with a greyscale image.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367485783#October", "title": "1925", "revid": 1367485783, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1926, "year_label": "1926 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "January 26", "text": "January 26 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system at his London laboratory for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373503199#January", "title": "1926", "revid": 1373503199, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1927, "year_label": "1927 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "May 23", "text": "May 23 – Nearly 600 members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers view a live demonstration of television at the Bell Telephone Building in New York City, just over a year after John Logie Baird of Scotland had first demonstrated an electromechanical system to members of the Royal Society in London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370012373#May", "title": "1927", "revid": 1370012373, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1928, "year_label": "1928 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "February 8", "text": "February 8 – Scottish-born inventor John Logie Baird broadcasts a transatlantic television signal from London to Hartsdale, New York.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372527586#February", "title": "1928", "revid": 1372527586, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1928, "year_label": "1928 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "July 3", "text": "July 3 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first colour television transmission in Glasgow.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372527586#July", "title": "1928", "revid": 1372527586, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1929, "year_label": "1929 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "August 20", "text": "August 20 – John Logie Baird's experimental 30-line television system is first transmitted, by the British Broadcasting Corporation in London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372436446#August", "title": "1929", "revid": 1372436446, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1936, "year_label": "1936 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "August 1", "text": "August 1 – The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Berlin, Germany, and mark the first live television coverage of an international sports event in world history (John Logie Baird had broadcast the Derby horse race in Britain in 1931).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373216494#July–August", "title": "1936", "revid": 1373216494, "section": "Events › July–August"}}]}