John Logie Baird

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John Logie Baird at his workshop in London, where he held the first public demonstration of television in January 1926. Picture: PA

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Scottish electrical engineer and television pioneer John Logie Baird giving a demonstration in his laboratory of his latest advance in colour television. Picture: Getty Images

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Early colour televisions for rent in Edinburgh at Â£1.53 per a week at at Grants department store in 1972. John Logie Baird demonstrated his first electronic colour TV almost 30 years earlier. PIC: TSPL.

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John Logie Baird patented the moving picture in 1924.

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John Logie Baird's grandson on the invention of the TV

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John Logie Baird. Picture: BBC

John Logie Baird's grandson on the invention of the TV

Scottish inventor of television John Logie Baird with an early TV set - pic not dated. Possibly taken in the 1930's

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1967: Round-the-world yachtsman Francis Chichester was knighted by the Queen on the quay at Greenwich. Picture: PA

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John Logie Baird, the inventor of television.

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On this day in 1987 the IRA arms ship, the Eksund, was intercepted by French police en route from Libya, with 150-tonne cargo worth £3.7 million. Picture: AFP/Getty

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Television pioneer John Logie Baird studied at the University of Glasgow. Picture: BBC

Logie Baird’s 1927 video recording ‘coming home’

Scottish engineer and pioneer of television John Logie Baird. Picture: Getty Images

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Scottish inventor John Logie Baird produced the first moving image on his television screen. Picture: Getty

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Scottish inventor of the television, John Logie Baird, is just one of many whose inventions have changed the world. Picture: Getty

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On this day: John Logie Baird’s ‘true television’

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Famous inventions flowered outside Scotland

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On this day in 1925, Helensburgh-born John Logie Baird produced the first moving image on his television screen. Picture: Getty

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John Logie Baird with the apparatus that transmitted the worlds first successful demonstrations of instantaneous, living, moving scenes. Picture: PA

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A man sports a stookie to immobilise a broken arm. Picture: TSPL

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The transmission took place between London, and the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow. Picture: Adrian Welch/glasgowarchitecture.co.uk

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TV inventor challenged

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Historic TV is out the box
THE world's oldest colour television is going on show for the first time.

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Luminaries' details revealed as 1911 survey made public

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Seeking young entrepreneurs

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'Baird's TV book' sells for £1,440

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'Baird's TV book' could net £1,000

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Oxfam finds signed Logie Baird book

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The Caledonian Club finally banishes sexism after 119 years

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Beefing up the reputation of Scots inventors

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Designer Trace Ward rides off with top prize for innovation

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