Often he had been sick, both as a child and a working adult. These professional placements entitled him to receive his degree from the Royal Technical College in 1914. From 1911-13 he helped design electrical switchboards and switchgear. Upon completion of his coursework, he worked for a time in industry, first in a truck factory and then improving engineering designs for engines and chassis. He enrolled in 1906 at the Royal Technical College to study electrical engineering, but the curriculum, his aptitude and interests led him toward optical and mechanical invention. These experiments led to his interest in seeing over distance, and his future inventions with regard to television. Also as a teenager, he tried making a speaking cinematograph film. At age 14 he decided to electrify in his family home, mostly with equipment he made himself. ![]() The low-definition television broadcasts would continue for the next six years, with viewership building up to a few thousand ‘lookers-in’ as awareness spread among the pre-existing radio audience that there was something to watch as well as hear over the airwaves.John Logie Baird was born in Helensburgh, Scotland to Reverend John Baird and Jessie Morrison Inglis in 1888. watch the inaugural television broadcast on a Noah’s Ark Televisor, 30 September 1929, Daily Herald Archive, Science Museum Group collection Sydney Moseley and two employees of the Baird Television Development Co. There is little doubt in my mind that our model B would have been one of those tuned in to the first British television broadcast, because it would have been among fewer than 30 Televisors across Britain available to tune in on 30 September 1929. Miss Lulu Stanley seated before the television transmitter in the Baird studio on the occasion of the inaugural broadcast through 2LO on 30 September 1929 ( Television magazine, October 1929) From the outset, these broadcasts were semi-experimental, featuring a regular schedule of entertaining programmes, often attracting professional artistes from theatre, music, film and radio eager to try out the new medium. ![]() The very first broadcast opened on the morning of 30 September 1929. However, the Baird Company would have to make the programmes on its own premises. John Logie Baird and his company were eager to initiate regular broadcasts to stimulate the sales of the Model B and their other new Televisors.Īfter much argument between the Baird Television Development Company, the BBC, and the Government it was finally decided that regular television broadcasts would begin over the BBC London station, 2LO, in late September, 1929. Noah’s Ark Televisors played a part in some of Baird’s most important experiments and demonstrations including the first demonstration of stereoscopic (3D) television on 10th August 1928. The Baird Television Development Company’s stand at the Olympia exhibition, London, September 1928 ( Television magazine, November 1928) Add in a couple of deluxe radio receivers, and the whole kit and caboodle would have cost a staggering £150. The Model B cost £40 which was an awful lot of money in 1928. My best estimate is that only about a dozen Noah’s Ark Televisors were built, although some historians think that up to 20 were made. In 1928, all of the Baird Company’s television set manufacturing took place there. The first commercial Televisors in the making at the Baird factory in Covent Garden, London, 1928 ( Television magazine, September 1928)įrom 1928–1932 the Baird Company rented premises at 133 Long Acre (Covent Garden) in London. ![]() It was also nicknamed the ‘Noah’s Ark’ Televisor because of its shape and wooden construction. The Baird Model B Televisor was officially known as a ‘Dual Exhibition Receiver’ due to its ability to reproduce both vision and sound. The Model B Televisor was produced in late 1928 by my grandfather’s company, the Baird Television Development Company Ltd. The Model B Televisor in our care was donated to us in 1994 by the Royal Television Society. Baird Model B Televisor, 1928, John Logie Baird, Science Museum Group collection One which deserves particular mention is the first television set ever put on sale in Britain. Over the past 30 years, we’ve acquired some of the most historically significant television-related artefacts in the world. Iain Logie Baird is certain that the Model B Televisor in our collection was tuned in to the very first television broadcast.
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