Baird John Logie
Baird John Logie (1888-1946). Scottish inventor of television. Baird began his research into the problems of televising moving objects at the age of 18. In 1926 he televised objects in outline, using a flying spot of light to scan a cathode ray tube. The German post office began using his system, which he had successfully applied to moving objects, in 1929. The BBC also adopted Baird’s system in that year but abandoned it in 1937 for the rival system of the Marconi Company. Baird produced the first colour television pictures in 1941.
