Baird, John Logie (1888-1946)

Baird was a Scottish engineer.
In 1924 he became the first person ever to transmit a television picture by radio waves.
He was also the first to transmit a picture across the Atlantic (in 1928),
and in the same year he transmitted colour television picture.
Baird's first television apparatus, set up in his attic workshop at Hastings, England,
included a tea chest, a biscuit tin, the front lenses from a number of bicycle lamps, bits of wood,
darning needles, string, and sealing-wax.
This crude camera transmitted a blurred image of a cross to a receiver at the other end of the attic.
Despite improvements made by Baird,
in 1937 the British Broadcasting Corporation chose for its broadcasts a rival system that used a Cathode Ray Tube.


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