Our New Project: 1930. Real Television

John Logie Baird (1888-1946), the Scotsman who was the first person in the world to demonstrate a working television system. On January 26th, 1926, a viable television system was demonstrated using mechanical picture scanning with electronic amplification at the transmitter and at the receiver. It could be sent by radio or over ordinary telephone lines, leading to the historic trans-Atlantic transmissions of television from London to New York in February, 1928. (Baird Television website)

By 1930, Baird electro-mechanical TV sets were offered to the public:

Since 1928, Television magazine was piblished in Great Britain and the United States:

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