John Logie Baird Biography, Facts, and Inventions.
                     John Logie Baird: 
Biography, Facts, 
and Inventions
Introduction
Scottish engineer John Logie Baird made the first 
mechanical television, which was able to transmit 
pictures of objects in motion. He also 
demonstrated color television in 1928.
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Who Was John 
Logie Baird?
John Logie Baird produced televised objects in 
outline in 1924, transmitted recognizable human 
faces in 1925 and demonstrated the televising of 
moving objects in 1926 at the Royal Institution in 
London. 
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Early Life
John Logie Baird was born on August 13, 1888 in 
Helensburgh, Dunbarton, Scotland. 
The fourth and youngest child of Rev. John and 
Jesse Baird, by his early teens he had developed a 
fascination with electronics and was already 
beginning to conduct experiments and build 
inventions.
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Education
After completing his primary schooling, Baird 
studied electrical engineering at the Royal 
Technical College in Glasgow. 
However, his studies were interrupted with the 
outbreak of World War I, though he was rejected 
for service because of health issues.
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Inventions
John Logie Baird was the first person to produce a 
live, moving, grayscale, television image from 
reflected light.
John Baird’s success in television was an 
achievement where other inventors had failed. 
Baird had successfully done it by making a better 
photoelectric cell that improved the signal 
conditioning from the photocell and the video 
amplifier.
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Early 
experimentation
Korn’s circuit was able to send fax pictures by 
telephone between countries, and it could operate 
without electronic amplification.
Since Korn circuits sent halftone images, this 
suggested that these circuits could work on the 
television.
John Baird experimented with a Nipkow Disk in his 
early experimentation.
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Rotating image 
scanning device
The Nipkow disk, a mechanical, rotating image 
scanning device, was invented by Paul Gottlieb 
Nipkow in 1884.
It is called the “master television patent” by the 
television historian, Albert Abramson.
The disk was developed by Baird and other 
inventors, as well.
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World’s first 
television set
Baird moved to 22 Linton Crescent, Hastings, 
located in the south coast of England, in 1923.
Here, John Baird rented a workshop in the Queen’s 
Arcade.
At the workshop he rented, Baird built the 
prototype for the world’s first television set.
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LATER YEARS
John Logie Baird moved to 1 Station Road, Bexhill-
on-Sea, East Sussex, in December 1944. Later on, 
in 2007, the house was demolished. An apartment 
building is now located on the site and was named 
Baird Court.
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DEATH
On June 14, 1946, John Logie Baird died in his East 
Sussex home after suffering a stroke in February.
John Logie Baird’s remains were buried in 
Helensburgh Cemetery, in Argyll, Scotland. He was 
buried beside his parents.
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