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John Logie Baird
After demonstrating real television in 1926, Scottish genius John Logie Baird went on to develop transatlantic transmissions, video recordings, color cinema televisions.
John Logie Baird
This is a balanced biography of one of the 20th Century's outstanding inventors, published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Baird's first public demonstration of a rudimentary television system.
Television and Me
'A fabulous distillation of all the joy and bitterness, hurt and humour of an extraordinary man... I doubt there will be a better written, more interesting or important book published in Scotland this year' - Daily Mail (2004) 'Funds were going down, the situation was becoming desperate and we were down to our last £30 when at last, one Friday in the first week of October 1925, everything functioned properly. The image of the dummy's head formed itself on the screen with what appeared to me almost unbelievable clarity. I had got it! I could scarcely believe my eyes, and felt myself shaking with excitement.' In one of the most extraordinary and entertaining autobiographies to be written by a...
Mister T. V.
John Logie Baird loves inventing things! When he hears about another inventor who has built a machine to show real live pictures, John sets about trying to do the same. Equipped with bits and pieces found in his house, John begins a journey which will change the course of history forever. Mister T.V. follows the life of John Logie Baird and the story behind the invention of the television.
John Logie Baird: The Man Who Invented Television
John Logie Baird is someone whose name is virtually unknown to most Americans. He was a gifted Scotsman who managed to perfect the world's first working television system. Baird announced his invention while living in Great Britain in 1924 and a year later provided a well-publicized public demonstration of his mechanical television system at a famous London department store. The general public, both in the United States and in Europe, was just beginning to appreciate how radio was fast becoming an important part of their everyday lives. Now they learned that someone had perfected a way that both sound as well as pictures could be sent directly into their homes. In 1927, Baird was able to tra...
John Logie Baird
As well as telling the story of Baird's life from his childhood in Scotland to his international fame as the Television Man, this title looks at the impact of his invention in terms of its importance in world history. The science behind the invention of the television is explained with diagrams; and quotes from Baird and his contemporaries give an insight into the famous inventor's mind.
Baird of Television
Ronald Tiltman has written a detailed contemporary biography of John Logie Baird, one of Britain's most illustrious early experimenters with mechanical television. The author concentrates on the inventor's activities in the field during the 1924-33 period. By utilizing illustrations, Tiltman provides an interesting and important view of pre-electronic systems as developed by their chief proponent.
