On this day in 1926, John Logie Baird demonstrated his "televisor" invention for the Royal Institution and The Times of London. Today’s Google logo has been replaced with a doodle marking the 90th ...

This was possibly the last time a lone inventor working in difficult conditions (rented room in Hastings) and with virtually no budget (my father tried to raise money for Baird) could invent something ...

It is 125 years since the inventor of television was born, on August 13 1888. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can get access to all of our premium content, as well as ...

THE word 'Televisor' was coined by Mr. J. L Baird in 1925 to describe apparatus for television and was registered by him as a trade mark. On account, however, of the general adoption of the word in ...