Through the BTDC the first transatlantic broadcast was transmitted from London and New York in 1928, and the first live transmission of the Epsom Derby. This early system consisted of a revolving shutter and light sensitive cell, before a large wooden revolving disc containing lenses.īy 1927 he succeeded in transmitting content across a 438 mile telephone line between London and Glasgow, before setting up Baird Television Development Company (BTDC) the same year. Though clearly still in basic form, with blurred images, this demonstration outlined the potential of Baird's mechanical technique.

Through this demonstration, Baird manipulated the head of a ventriloquists' doll, displaying an image measuring only 3 ½in x 2in. By the following year, he had achieved successful transmission of recognisable human faces, in pictures with light and shade.Īs a result, on 26th January 1926, Baird held a public demonstration in Soho, London, before members of the Royal Institute and a journalist from The Times. The creation of the mechanical television began in 1924, when Baird managed to transmit a flickering image across 10 feet to accompany sound. John Logie Baird FRSE (1888–1946) was a Scottish engineer and inventor, famously noted as inventor of the mechanical TV, introducing his early form of the television, in the 1920's.192, with 30-line square hole Nipkow disc, original pip-top selenium cell neon, Televisor motor with speed rack, Zenith voltage dropper, on polished mahogany baseboard, under chocolate brown tinplate case with cream lining, plain cast 'Eye-of-the-World' plaque to the front with Baird signature, on bracket feet, 27in (69cm) wide Footnotes By The Plessey Company, restored by George Windsor in 1978 to working order, No.

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