John Logie Baird

John Logie Baird

John Logie Baird (13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottish engineer and the inventor of the world's first practical, publicly demonstrated television system. He was born in 1888 in Helensburgh, Scotland. While he studied at Glasgow University, his education was interrupted by the outbreak of World War I. When the war ended, he established a business in order to pursue his goal of developing TV. In 1927, he realized his goal when he transmitted images over 400 miles using a telephone line between Glasgow, Scotland, and London, England. By using Nipkow’s disk idea, he created a camera and a monitor. Later, he formed his company, the Baird Television Development Company (BTDC). Baird died on June 14, 1946.

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