John Logie Baird
Scottish inventor, demonstrating the world's first working television
- Lived
- 1888–1946
- Country
- United Kingdom
Updated September 2026
About John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer and innovator who demonstrated the world's first mechanical television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first viable purely electronic colour television picture tube.
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