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John Logie Baird (1888-1946)
Born in Helensburgh,Scotland. Baird studied electrical engineering at the Glasgow Royal College of Technology. He suffered from ill health and could not obtain regular employment so he turned to invention. An early failure was trying to make synthetic diamonds. For a time he worked in the USA, where a jam-making enterprise also failed.
Baird started work on the transmission of pictures and in 1925 he constructed a 30 line system using a mechanical scanner with a spinning disk. He demonstrated this to members of the Royal Institute on 26 January, 1926. He transmitted pictures across the Atlantic in 1928. He started the first TV station in the world and provided broadcast for the BBC including the first outside broadcast of the Derby horserace in 1931.
A poor businessman he did not have enough capital to develop his company and turned down a large sum of money for his invention, saying he could not sleep at night with that amount of money. Meantime the cathode-ray tube system was being developed by Marconi, and the BBC adopted the rival system in 1937. But he continued to develop new sound and visions systems including high definition colour and stereoscopic television and a "phonovision" system recording video on a disk storage system, afore runner of compac disks. During WW11 he was involved in the development of radar and fibre optic.
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John logie baird, First tv station
