Today’s Google doodle marks the 90th anniversary of the first demonstration of the technology called the mechanical television. I bet you cannot imagine your life without TV – this amazing window to the world.
And yet it is only 90 years since it was invented by Scottish engineer and inventor John Logie Baird. He demonstrated the first working television system on January 26, 1926 to a gathering of scientists and a journalist from “The Times” in an attic room that served as his laboratory.
Baird’s first television system sent images as electrical signals over telephone wires and later over radio waves. First images Baird sent were a cross and a paper mask that he moved in front of the camera. He made the first television programes for the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation).
Even though mechanical television technology produced faint and often blurred images and was quickly usurped by electronic television, Baird’s first television system was a major step in the development of television. That is why today’s Google doodle decided to reminds us how it all began.
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