Exactly one century on, a team at Bournemouth University is recreating the first receiver.

The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and ...

In his lab 100 years ago, inventor John Logie Baird delivered the first public demonstration of true television. What exactly did viewers see that day?

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Scottish inventor John Logie Baird revealed the first television, called the Televisor, to the world. Those first pictures, flickering images of the head of a ventriloquist's doll, sparked a ...

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

To mark 100 years since the first public demonstration of television, RTS Technology Centre's Kara Myhill reflects on how the medium has transformed from a technological marvel into something that's ...

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 ...

This chart shows the share of respondents saying that live TV is usually the first thing they turn on when they want to watch ...

On a cold Tuesday in London in 1926, a tallish but sickly and eccentric Scotsman invited members of Britain’s Royal ...

Sa Usap Tayo, we look back on a century of television and explore how viewing habits have changed from the Philippines to ...