Who really invented television?

The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and ...
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Television turns 100: the forgotten history of Britain’s earliest TV shows

One hundred years after the birth of television in Britain, Magic Rays of Light author John Wyver looks back at the rapid development of the new medium during the 1930s – a lost era that saw a huge ...

A century ago, John Logie Baird achieved a landmark moment in television history. The viewers weren’t convinced

In Soho, London, 100 years ago, John Logie Baird’s mechanical television system broadcast recognisable human faces for the ...

Television History

January 26th marked 100 years since the first public demonstration of a technology that we now know as television. Tatenda finds out more about the history of television and how it changed the world.

The BBC once made the arts ‘utterly central’ to television – 100 years later they’re almost invisible

After British television was established in 1926, it went on to foster a productively rich relationship with the arts, but coverage has seriously declined this century.
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Engineering students recreate world’s first television at inventor’s old school

Students at John Logie Baird's former university have recreated a working version of his original 1926 television. The final-year engineers from the University of Strathclyde have built a televisor ...