John Logie Baird FRSE
(1888-1946)
Died aged c. 58
Wikidata WikipediaJohn Logie Baird FRSE (/ˈloʊɡi bɛərd/; 13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first live working 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. Baird's early technological successes and his role in the practical introduction of broadcast television for home entertainment have earned him a prominent place in television's history. In 2006, Baird was named as one of the 10 greatest Scottish scientists in history, having been listed in the National Library of Scotland's 'Scottish Science Hall of Fame'. In 2015 he was inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame. On 26 January 2017 – IEEE unveiled a bronze street plaque at 22 Frith Street (Bar Italia), London, dedicated to Baird and the invention of television. In 2021, the Royal Mint unveiled a John Logie Baird 50p coin commemorating the 75th anniversary of his death.
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Commemorated on 7 plaques
John Logie Baird 1888-1946 television pioneer lived here
3 Crescent Wood Road, Sydenham, SE26 Lewisham, London, United Kingdom where they lived
In this house John Logie Baird 1888-1946 first demonstrated television
22 Frith Street, London, United Kingdom where they demonstrated
From this site John Logie Baird broadcast the first television programme in Great Britain on the 30th September 1929
132-135 Long Acre, WC2, London, United Kingdom where they broadcast the first television programme in Great Britain
Between 1944-1946 'Baird Court' was the last residing address of John Logie Baird 1888-1946 inventor of the world's first working television system
Baird Court, Station Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, United Kingdom where they experimented
John Logie Baird (1888-1946) Britain's first long distance television pictures were transmitted to a ?? in this hotel from London by John Logie Baird on May 24th 1927
Grand Central Hotel (in the hotel lobby), 99 Gordon Street, G1 3SF, Glasgow, United Kingdom where they was
The Long Acre Covent Garden At No. 132, John Logie Baird made the first British television broadcast in 1929
1-3 Long Acre, , where they was
JOHN LOGIE BAIRD (1888–1946) Conducted his first experimental television transmissions from this site 1926 - 1928
2-6 West Street, abutting Upper St Martin's Lane, London, United Kingdom where they conducted experiments (1926-1928)