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  1. Apr 2, 2014 · John Logie Baird was born on August 13, 1888 in Helensburgh, Dunbarton, Scotland. The fourth and youngest child of Rev. John and Jesse Baird, by his early teens he had developed a fascination with ...

  2. John Logie Baird FRSE (/ ˈ l oʊ ɡ i b ɛər d /; [1] 13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first live working television system on 26 January 1926.

  3. John Logie Baird was born on 14 August 1888 in Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland, the son of a clergyman. Dogged by ill health for most of his life, he nonetheless showed early signs of ...

  4. John Logie Baird, born in 1888 near Glasgow, was a true inventor. At the age of 34, when he began his quest to develop television, he already had a string of business ventures behind him.

  5. Oct 1, 2024 · John Logie Baird (born Aug. 13, 1888, Helensburgh, Dunbarton, Scot.—died June 14, 1946, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, Eng.) was a Scottish engineer, the first man to televise pictures of objects in motion. Baird, John Logie John Logie Baird (standing) and his assistant working on Baird's "Noctovisor," Sept. 8, 1929. (more) Educated at Larchfield ...

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  6. John Logie Baird was an engineer and inventor. Known as 'The Father of Television', he is most famous for being the first person to demonstrate a working television. Inventiveness. Born in Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland, John was the fourth and youngest child of the Rev John and Jessie Baird.

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  8. Sep 6, 2023 · John Logie Baird – his birth certificate records his middle name as ‘Loggie’ – was born on 13 August 1888 in Helensburgh on the Firth of Clyde in Scotland. The fourth and youngest child of the Reverend John and Jesse Baird, by his early teens he had, as one biographer describes it, ‘developed a fascination with electronics and was already beginning to conduct experiments and build ...