On a cold Tuesday in London in 1926, a tallish but sickly and eccentric Scotsman invited members of Britain’s Royal Institution to look at a homemade contraption he had assembled and that he had been ...
In Soho, London, 100 years ago, John Logie Baird’s mechanical television system broadcast recognisable human faces for the ...
Frith Street in Soho, where John Logie Baird gave the world's first public television demonstration in 1926, now houses a ...
The unassuming Bar Italia on Frith Street, Soho, was once a laboratory where the first public demonstration of television was given on January 26, 1926 ...
One hundred years after the birth of television in Britain, Magic Rays of Light author John Wyver looks back at the rapid development of the new medium during the 1930s – a lost era that saw a huge ...
Akbar did marry a Rajput princess from Amer, but history suggests she was never called Jodhabai. Known as Harkha Bai or later ...
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In his lab 100 years ago, inventor John Logie Baird delivered the first public demonstration of true television. What exactly did viewers see that day?
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LEO MCKINSTRY: Those allowing Britain's spirit of innovation to slide should heed the story of a true great.