Assignment 5: John Logie Baird

John Logie Baird (1888 - 1946) was an engineer from Scotland, best remembered for inventing the first electromechanical television system. Born in Helensburgh, studied in Glasgow, degree was interrupted by World War One, and never finished. Baird experimented transmitting pictures from one place to another, he was the first to successfully transmit a live, moving image in halftones from reflected light. Baird improved the photoelectric cell and managing the photoelectric cell and video amplifier. On October 2nd 1925 he transmitted a ventriloquists dummy producing a 30 line vertically scanned image at 5 pictures per second. The first ever TV appearance fee was half a crown or 12.5 pence in today's money. Baird made the fist transatlantic television transmission from London to New York in 1928 as well as the first television program for the BBC. In 1944 he demonstrated the world's first fully electronic colour television. In post war Britain he pursuaded the government to adopt the 1000 line Telechrome electronic color system, quality comparable to todays modern HDTV, but didn't workout due to competition of resources. Baird suffered a stroke in 1946 and died in his home.

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