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Argyll Street Cricket Club741 viewsThis is a photo of Larchfield School pupils taken by John Logie Baird in about 1900 at the Larchfield cricket field near the Duchess Wood at Ardencaple. His friend Jack Buchanan, later to become a famous entertainer, is seated on the right with his cap at a rakish angle. Professor Malcolm Baird, who kindly supplied the image, says: “There are ten people in the group, and it is possible that JLB was the 11th member of the team! There is nothing more on record."
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Baird receiver717 viewsJohn Logie Baird is pictured with a C.R.T. receiver, circa 1935.
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Hastings experiment771 viewsJohn Logie Baird working at Hastings, circa 1924.
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First television transmitter751 viewsHelensburgh inventor John Logie Baird is pictured with the first television transmitter, made up literally from odds and ends, in September 1926. The apparatus was used in the world's first successful demonstrations of instantaneous moving scenes by wire and wireless. It is now housed in the Science Museum in South Kensington, London.
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Telechrome demo554 viewsJohn Logie Baird's August 1944 demonstration of the Telechrome, the world’s first cathode ray tube for colour television, was an historic event. The picture was large and bright, a great improvement over the small flickery images of the old mechanical system.
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Baird 1930213 viewsA Northcliffe Newspapers photo, dated August 21 1930, captioned: "Mr John L.Baird, of television fame."
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JLB's house on Box Hill, Surrey336 viewsJohn Logie Baird lived in this Arts and Crafts house in Box Hill Surrey from 1929 to January 1932. He was to return to England's south coast in 1944, setting up home in Swiss Cottage, Bexhill. He lived there until his death two years later after suffering a stroke. The Station Road home was demolished in 2007 and the site now houses a development of apartments, named Baird Court.
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Portrait794 viewsAn August 23 1930 photo of John Logie Baird.
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John Logie Baird at Hastings730 viewsHelensburgh-born inventor John Logie Baird is pictured at the unveiling of a plaque by the Mayor of Hastings, where Baird first demonstrated television in 1924.
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Early portrait766 viewsTV inventor John Logie Baird, pictured as a young man. Image date not known.
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Portrait745 viewsA photographic portrait of Helensburgh-born TV inventor John Logie Baird. Image date unknown.
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1926 portrait663 viewsThis image of John Logie Baird forms the second page of the 1926 book 'Television: Seeing by Wireless', written by Alfred Dinsdale, A.M.I.R.E. A copy of the first edition of this book fetched over £10,000 at a Christies auction.
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