People are already speculating about a name for our new town hall / arts centre - so let me make an early pitch for John ...

Scientists and inventors were racing to work out how to combine them into television. John Logie Baird created the first prototype from four inventions from other people (all described ...

As one of the pioneers of television, John Logie Baird has been written about a great deal over the years. The image we get from these accounts is of an unworldly, somewhat lonely figure dedicated ...

How John Logie Baird's mechanical television showed the ... already famous for his experimental radio features, directed the first television play in Britain: a production of Luigi Pirandello ...

John Logie Baird (1888-1946 ... special events and other sporadic transmissions since 1927. The first special-purpose television station was built in Germany in 1935 in preparation for the ...

A new guide to TV programmes which have either been filmed in Scotland or have Scottish links has been dedicated to John Logie Baird. The Helensburgh-born inventor became the first person to ...

Walk around Soho and Covent Garden and one name pops up time and time again. John Logie Baird, Scottish-born inventor of television, seems to have broadcast his achievements to half the streets in the ...

Imagine for a minute that John Logie Baird was around at the peak of the Industrial Revolution, and invented his television around ... I watched the first episode – 45 minutes without adverts ...