People are already speculating about a name for our new town hall / arts centre - so let me make an early pitch for John ...

Walk around Soho and Covent Garden and one name pops up time and time again. John Logie Baird, Scottish-born inventor of television, seems to have broadcast his achievements to half the streets in the ...

How John Logie Baird's mechanical television showed the ... And when it did so, there was no single 'inventor' of television. A large number of experimenters, entrepreneurs, and public ...

As one of the pioneers of television, John Logie Baird has been written about a great deal over the years. The image we get from these accounts is of an unworldly, somewhat lonely figure dedicated ...

It took four years for the BBC to abandon the mechanical Baird TV system, why it happened and why it was crucial. The story of how the BBC abandoned Baird’s system for the technically superior ...

Scottish inventor John Logie Baird is credited with having invented the television. His experiments began in the early 1920s, generating beams of light that would pass through a spinning disc with ...

John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor, gives the first public demonstration of a pictorial-transmission machine he calls a televisor. Baird's invention used mechanical rotating disks to scan moving ...

The United Kingdom has been home to some of the most amazing inventions in history. From life-changing gadgets to fun treats, ...

On Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz network of concentration camps in Poland, freeing some 7,000 ...

On Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz network of concentration camps in Poland, freeing some 7,000 survivors.