On this day: October 2
1925
![Scottish inventor of television John Logie Baird with an early TV set - pic not dated. Possibly taken in the 1930's](https://www.scotsman.com/webimg/legacy_elm_41952893.jpg?crop=3:2,smart&width=640&quality=65&enable=upscale)
![Scottish inventor of television John Logie Baird with an early TV set - pic not dated. Possibly taken in the 1930's](/img/placeholder.png)
John Logie-Baird, from Helensburgh, performs the first test of a working television system first television picture in 1925.
The church minister’s son sent the first images across the Atlantic in 1928 and started the first TV station with broadcasts for BBC.