John Logie Baird
	John Logie Baird was born in Helensburg, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, in August 13 1888. Baird was a Scottish inventor. He invented the first television transmission in 1924. Baird televised objects in outline, then in1925 he televised a human face. He was the first person to televise pictures of objects in motion. His equipment included an old box, a cake tin, a knitting needle and a bicycle lamp. In his lab he transmitted a blurred picture of a young boy named William Tayton. Baird demonstrated his discovery to the British public on January 26 1926. In 1930 Baird made the first public broadcast of a TV show, from his studio to the London Coliseum Cinema.The screen consisted of a 6ft by 3ft array of 2,100 tiny flash lamp bulbs. After Baird's breakthrough, many television systems were developed. Baird developed a colour television in 1928. Soon after that the BBC started operating a black and white television station from London in 1936 and by 1939 there were television receivers in 20,000 homes. In 1946 he invented a stereo television. Baird's mechanical television was usurped by electronic television, which he also worked on. A couple of years later he brought his invention to America where he was very successful. John Logie Baird died at a young age of 58, on June 14 1946. Now televisions have come a very long way and there are all different types of televisions. Most of the homes in Dublin have a least one television and at least 10 channels on their televisions. By: Eve Loftus