John Logie Baird (1888-1946), television pi

John Logie Baird (1888-1946), television pioneer, October 1944. After a serious illnes in 1922, Baird devoted himself to experimentation and developed a crude TV apparatus, able to transmit a picture and receive it over a range of a few feet. The first real demonstration was within two attic rooms in Soho, London, in early 1926, and by 1927 he had managed to transmit pictures by telephone line from London to Glasgow. Baird with his small, two colour Telechrome tube.