It had been the ambition of many people in the late 19th century to produce moving images carried instantly. Attempts in several countries around the world had come close to achieving that aim but it was the work of Baird that finally produced a system that could be demonstrated in 1925. His work was based on developments of several other people but he is known as the inventor of television because his was the first successful system. His own work spanned many years to reach that point.
Four years after the first demonstration, the BBC adopted his system and began public broadcasting in 1929.
Baird went on to put forward proposals for a high definition color system in 1939. Although the technology of the time would not support his proposals, his ideas for color broadcasting were used in future developments to deliver color images to people's homes in the 1950s.
There is not a great deal known about how Baird reached the point of the first working television. He certainly devoted a huge amount of time to the work but he was not alone in his efforts. His first public demonstration was in 1925 but engineers and scientists had been grappling with the idea of live moving images ever since the introduction of telegraphy and radio some decades earlier.
One of the breakthroughs in television was by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, a German engineer. He developed the Nipkow disc, a disc with numerous holes that could be used to "draw" spiral images. He patented the idea bit although the patent was granted in 1885, a similar disc had been used some forty years earlier to transmit what might now be described as a fax.
Baird made use of the Nipkow disc, as others had tried. Baird was the first to successfully add the electronic systems around the disc to create a full television system from camera to television. He called it the "Televisor" and it was put into public use in 1929 by the BBC.
The system was limited for many reasons and in 1936, Baird's system was replaced by a fully electronic one in the BBC. The electronic systems marked the end of the electro-mechanical versions and paved the way for increased resolution and viewing quality. Although Baird produced a very primitive system, it must be remembered that he was extending technology to its limits at the time. Make no mistake, in delivering the first working television system he should be remembered as a fine engineer and an accomplished inventor.
John Logie Baird is remembered as the inventor of mechanical television, radar and fiber optics. Successfully tested in a laboratory in late 1925 and unveiled with much fanfare in London in early 1926, mechanical television technology was quickly usurped by electronic television, the basis of modern video technology. Nonetheless, Baird's achievements, including making the first trans-Atlantic television transmission, were singular and critical scientific accomplishments. Lonely, driven, tireless and often poor, the native Scot defined the pioneering spirit of scientific inquiry.
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John Logie Baird died on June 14, 1946 at the age of 57.
Baird spent many years working on electronic transmission of television. His first public demonstration of television was in 1925. His system, called "The Televisor" was put into commercial use by the BBC in England in 1929. The system was electro-mechanical, using a rotating disc to create the image. Although this now sounds like a very cumbersome method, it remained in use until the middle of the 1930s when the BBC changed to a fully electronic system. By the time the BBC began broadcasting black and white television, Baird had already demonstrated a color version. Although it was a fully operational system, it never saw commercial service.
John Logie Baird was the first person to demonstrate a working television in March 1925. He chose a London department store for the demonstration. In January 1929, the BBC adopted his television system and began the world's first public television broadcasts. Based on those accomplishments, one has to agree that Baird was successful. In 1928 he also showed off the world's first color television. It never made it to production but it did prove the idea that color television could be created using three primary colors, still used today in all color television systems. In the mid 1930s the BBC adopted a new fully electronic television system. Baird (along with Philo Farnsworth, the American pioneer of television) submitted bids to supply the new system but their proposal was not accepted. Baird was not a popular character within the BBC, seen as too commercially minded by some. This resulted in his achievements being sidelined and he played little part in the development of BBC television from that time onwards.
John Baird's life will be like hell because there was a big war [World war1,2] and in the olden days, life would be boring because there wasn't any games and TVs.
Beginning in the 1880s, many scientists and inventors were working on a system to broadcast light images including German, Russian, American, Hungarian, and Scottish. The first successful system for broadcasting and receiving was demonstrated by John Logie Baird in 1925 in London. His system was used by the BBC for scheduled broadcasts in 1929, so beginning the first regular public broadcasts. The system in use was an electro-mechanical one, relying on spinning discs to create moving images. Filo Farnsworth demonstrated an electro-mechanical system in 1927 in America. By 1929, he had produced the first fully electronic television system. This was an important milestone in television development because the lack of moving parts allowed resolutions to improve. His system was used for RCA's commercial broadcasting to begin in 1939 after a number of legal challenges to patents.
Yeah John Logie Baird did invent the television. :) lol
john Logie Baird invented the television
John Logie Baird.
J.L. Baird invented the first fully operational television set.
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John Logie Baird invented the first functional television .
He invented the television as an alternitive to cinema.
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its because he felt in the mood to invent it too make people happy!!
John Logie Baird demonstrated his first television pictures in 1924.