People are already speculating about a name for our new town hall / arts centre - so let me make an early pitch for John ...

Did John Logie Baird ever imagine that his invention would have such an effect on human life? Essentially a camera that converts images into an electric current that can be sent to a receiver ...

How John Logie Baird's mechanical television showed the way, but ultimately to a dead end. Humanity’s deep desire for connection means the idea of seeing images at a distance has a long history.

In 1924, a young Scottish engineer, John Logie Baird, developed a way of passing a beam of light through a rapidly spinning disc punched with holes, so that a simple image could be ‘scanned ...