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John Logie Baird

John Logie Baird
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John Logie Baird was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer and innovator who demonstrated the world's first mechanical television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first viable purely electronic colour television picture tube.

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  1. Elisa Leonida ZamfirescuNovember 10, 1887 – November 25, 1973
  2. Frits ZernikeJuly 16, 1888 – March 10, 1966
  3. Jakow TrachtenbergJune 17, 1888 – October 26, 1951
  4. John Logie Baird (this page)August 13, 1888 – June 14, 1946
  5. Ralph HartleyNovember 30, 1888 – May 1, 1970
  6. W. O. BentleySeptember 16, 1888 – August 13, 1971

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