New Delhi: Television is something that most of us watch for those who have time. It provides us with entertainment and also gives us truckloads of information. It has been our companion for decades and brings the world into our living rooms. Earlier, television used to have large boxes with black-and-white pictures. With the evolution of technology, it has become slick and smart. We watch every important event, be it sports, politics or entertainment, on the television.
Every year on November 21, World Television Day is observed. In 1996, the United Nations General Assembly declared November 21 World Television Day as it recognised that television significantly affects decision-making and supports the entertainment industry. In the history of television, there have been several great inventors and here the question arises who demonstrated the world’s first live working television system?
John Logie Baird: The inventor who revolutionised TV
John Logie Baird was a Scottish inventor who on January 26, 1926, demonstrated the first live working television system in the world. Born on August 13, 1888, in Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, John was educated in several places including the University of Glasgow. He took up several engineering apprentice jobs during his days in college. The conditions in industrial Glasgow at the time made him a socialist but also contributed to his ill health.
The experiments of Baird
In early 1923, Baird moved to the south coast of England and in a workshop he built the world’s first working television using such items as an old hatbox, some darning needles, a pair of scissors, a used tea chest, a few bicycle light lenses, and sealing wax and glue. Baird, to develop a working television system, experimented using the Nipkow disk.
On March 25, 1925, he first publicly demonstrated the television’s moving silhouette images at a store in London. On January 26, 1926, he gave the first public demonstration of true television images for Royal Institution’s members and The Times reporter in his laboratory. It was the first time a television system with tonal graduation could scan and display live moving images. On July 3, 1928, he demonstrated the first colour transmission in the world and also demonstrated stereoscopic television in the same year.
John Logie Baird was a Scottish inventor who on January 26, 1926, demonstrated the first live working television system in the world. knowledge Knowledge News, Photos and Videos on General Knowledge
