HOW TELEVISION WAS INVENTED


Television owes origins to many inventors. But it was the single-minded determination of an amateur inventor, John Logie Baird, that led the first live television broadcast.
Born in Scotland in 1888 and educated in Glasgow, John Logie Baird earned a living a razor-blade salesman. In the 1890s Guglielmo Marconi showed that sound could sent by radio waves. Baird became convinced that a similar system could transmit a picture. He spent most of spare time working on his ideas in his tiny workshop without commercial support. He to use his earnings to continue his research.
In 1924, Baird successfully transmitted the general outline of a figure over more 3 metres. He continued to experiment and October 25, 1925, transmitted a recognisable image of a doll. He ran to the office on the ground floor and persuaded one of the office boys to come upstairs. boy became the first living image transmitted by television.
Overnight, Baird became famous and the money he needed to continue his research was at made available. In 1927 he made a transmission from London to Glasgow and in 1928 he made from London to New York. He continued experimenting the possibility of colour television.