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John Logie Baird Presents the First Demonstration of Electromechanical Television

1/26/1926
photo of John Logie Baird with his television apparatus, circa 1925
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John Logie Baird with his television apparatus, circa 1925

On January 26, 1926 Scottish engineer and inventor John Logie Baird gave the world's first demonstration of his electromechanical television system to fifty scientists assembled in his attic workshop at 22 Frith Street in the Soho district of London.

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Telecommunications
Technology / Engineering
Television