{"id":1582,"date":"2021-06-14T09:45:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T08:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2025-05-28T13:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T12:02:37","slug":"john-logie-baird-75th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2021\/06\/14\/john-logie-baird-75th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"John Logie Baird 75th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1585 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/05\/Thinktank_Birmingham_-_Baird-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/05\/Thinktank_Birmingham_-_Baird-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/05\/Thinktank_Birmingham_-_Baird.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 85vw, 220px\" \/>75<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the death of John Logie Baird (1888-1946), a Scottish inventor, known as the Father of Television. In 1926 he demonstrated the first working television and went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system.<\/p>\n<p>In early 1923, and in poor health, Baird moved to Hastings. He built what was to become the world&#8217;s first working television set using items including an old hatbox and a pair of scissors, some darning needles, a few bicycle light lenses, a used tea chest, and sealing wax and glue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1584 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/05\/John_Logie_Baird_and_Stooky_Bill-300x227.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/05\/John_Logie_Baird_and_Stooky_Bill-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/05\/John_Logie_Baird_and_Stooky_Bill.png 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>In his laboratory on 2 October 1925, Baird successfully transmitted the first television picture with a greyscale image: the head of a ventriloquist&#8217;s dummy nicknamed \u201cStooky Bill\u201d in a 32-line vertically scanned image, at five pictures per second.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1583 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/05\/330px-John_Logie_Baird_Apparatus-1-300x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/05\/330px-John_Logie_Baird_Apparatus-1-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/05\/330px-John_Logie_Baird_Apparatus-1.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>On 26 January 1926, Baird repeated the transmission for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times. He demonstrated the world&#8217;s first colour transmission on 3 July 1928.<\/p>\n<p>Not all of his inventions were quite as successful as the television. \u00a0In his twenties he tried to create diamonds by heating graphite. Later Baird invented a glass razor, which was rust-resistant, but shattered. Inspired by pneumatic tyres he attempted to make pneumatic shoes, but his prototype contained semi-inflated balloons, which burst (years later this same idea was successfully adopted for Dr Martens\u00a0boots!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>75th anniversary of the death of John Logie Baird (1888-1946), a Scottish inventor, known as the Father of Television. In 1926 he demonstrated the first working television and went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system. In early 1923, and in poor health, Baird moved to Hastings. He built what was to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2021\/06\/14\/john-logie-baird-75th-anniversary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Logie Baird 75th anniversary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":1586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3909,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions\/3909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}