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John Logie Baird

Scottish inventor, demonstrating the world's first working television (1888–1946)

7 dated entries naming John Logie Baird, drawn from 6 separate years between 1925 CE and 1936 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1925October 2 – In London, UK, John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first television pictures with a greyscale image.source
  • 1926January 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.source
  • 1927May 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.source
  • 1928February 8 – Scottish-born inventor John Logie Baird broadcasts a transatlantic television signal from London to Hartsdale, New York.source
  • 1928July 3 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first colour television transmission in Glasgow.source
  • 1929August 20 – John Logie Baird's experimental 30-line television system is first transmitted, by the British Broadcasting Corporation in London.source
  • 1936August 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).source

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