John Logie Baird

@Electrical Engineers, Family and Personal Life ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ John Logie Baird was a Scottish engineer and is known as ‘The Father of Television’ British Scottish Engineers Electrical Engineers Inventors & Discoverers Scientists Leo Celebrities John Logie Baird FRSE was a Scottish engineer who is known as ‘The Father of Television’. He was an innovator who invented the first successful mechanical television, the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first purely electronic colour television picture tube. At quite a young age he depicted a flair for electronics; he had tested and tried remote-controlled photography and also rigged a telephone exchange to connect his house to those of his nearby friends. In his teens he read a German book on the photoelectric properties of selenium which inspired him about the concept of television. This dream turned into a possible-reality when he heard of Arthur Korn’s fantastic achievement. Korn had successfully invented a circuit which could transmit fax pictures over any required distance and Baird tried to follow the concept for live or moving pictures. Baird successfully transmitted a long-distance television signal (438 miles) from London to Glasgow through a telephone line. Soon other achievements followed: he demonstrated the first transatlantic transmission through his Baird Television Development Company Ltd, the first stereoscopic television and video recording device. Other than television he made remarkable contributions to the fields of fibre optics, radio imaging, secret signaling, and infra-red scanning.

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Birthday: August 13, 1888 Died on: June 14, 1946 Nationality: British, Scottish Famous: Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Inventors & Discoverers, Scientists Spouses: Margaret Albu Childrens: Diana Baird, Malcom Baird Universities: Larchfield Academy University of Glasgow Royal College of Science and Technology Lomond School University of Strathclyde Information Detail Birthday August 13, 1888 Died on June 14, 1946 Nationality British, Scottish Famous Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Inventors & Discoverers, Scientists Spouses Margaret Albu Childrens Diana Baird, Malcom Baird Universities Larchfield Academy University of Glasgow Royal College of Science and Technology Lomond School University of Strathclyde Founder / Co-Founder Cintel Discoveries / Inventions Mechanical Television Birth Place Helensburgh Born Country United Kingdom Religion Church of Scotland Gender Male Father John Baird Sun Sign Leo Born in Helensburgh Famous as Engineer Died at Age 57

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John Logie Baird married Margaret Albu in 1931 and together they had two children, Diana and Malcolm. Unsplash Personal Life

He suffered a stroke in February 1946 and passed away on 14 June 1946, at the age of 57. Unsplash Personal Life

Australian television’s Logie Awards are named in his honour. Unsplash Personal Life

John Logie Baird was born on August 13, 1888 in Helensburgh, Scotland, as the fourth, and youngest child of the Reverend John Baird and Jessie Morrison Inglis. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He received his schooling from the Larchfield Academy in Helensburgh before going to the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College in 1906 to study electrical engineering. The First World War broke out before he could graduate. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

John Logie Baird was not accepted for the military service due to his chronic illness and therefore he worked for the Clyde Valley Electrical Power Company for a while. After the war ended he tried several unsuccessful businesses and then went to Britain in 1920. Unsplash Career

Arthur Korn in the first decade of 1900 had invented the first successful signal-conditioning circuit for image transmission that could send fax pictures by telephone/wireless even over oceans. Baird implemented the same mechanism for television. Unsplash Career

He moved to Hastings in 1923 and rented a workshop where he made the world’s first working TV using an old hatbox, pair of scissors, darning needles, bicycle light lenses, tea chest, sealing wax and glue. Unsplash Career

In 1924 at the office of Radio Times he successfully demonstrated a semi-mechanical analogue television by transmitting moving silhouette images. Later that year he received a severe electric shock in his workshop. The landlord asked him to vacate the place and Baird headed to London. Unsplash Career

His first public demonstration of the moving images by television was at the Selfridges departmental store in Soho, London in 1925, followed by a series of demonstrations over a period of three-weeks. Unsplash Career

John Logie Baird is known as the ‘Father of Television’ as he played a major role in the invention of the mechanical television that transmitted moving silhouette images and was the inventor of the first publicly demonstrated colour television system. Unsplash Major Works

Information	Detail
Birthday	August 13, 1888
Died on	June 14, 1946
Nationality	British, Scottish
Famous	Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Inventors & Discoverers, Scientists
Spouses	Margaret Albu
Childrens	Diana Baird, Malcom Baird
Universities	Larchfield Academy University of Glasgow Royal College of Science and Technology Lomond School University of Strathclyde
Founder / Co-Founder	Cintel
Discoveries / Inventions	Mechanical Television
Birth Place	Helensburgh
Born Country	United Kingdom
Religion	Church of Scotland
Gender	Male
Father	John Baird
Sun Sign	Leo
Born in	Helensburgh
Famous as	Engineer
Died at Age	57

John Logie Baird

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Aug 13, 1888

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