John Logie Baird was a Scottish inventor and engineer who is widely credited as the father of television. He was the first person to demonstrate a working television system in 1926, and he went on to develop a number of other inventions and innovations in the field of television technology
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John Logie Baird was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer and innovator who demonstrated the world's first mechanical television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first viable purely electronic colour television picture tube.