John Baird Inventor of the Television John Baird was born on August 13th 1888 in Helensburgh, Dunbarton, Scotland. He took a course in electrical engineering at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College (now called Strathclyde University) and studied towards his Bachelor of Science Degree in electrical engineering from the University of Glasgow; although his studies were disrupted by the outbreak of World War 1.
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During the 1920s John Baird, together with an American named Clarence W. Hansell, patented the idea of using arrays of transparent rods to transmit images for television. Baird's 30 line images were the first demonstrations of television by reflected light rather than back-lit silhouettes. He based his technology initially on a scanning disk idea and then later, on developments in electronics.
He created the first televised pictures of objects in motion in 1924 and the first televised human face in 1925. A year later, in 1926, he televised the first moving object image at the Royal Institution in London.
His 1928 transatlantic transmission of the image of a human face was a broadcasting milestone. August 2021
