has everyone seen the google doodle for today? 90th anniversary of 1st television image

[niyad]

Who invented the television? How people reacted to John Logie Baird's creation 90 years ago
The first live TV audience found it hard to believe that it would take off. Now the invention of the mechanical television has been marked with a Google Doodle. Ninety years ago today a moving head on a screen made history. It was the first public demonstration of live television, and the occasion is being marked with a Google Doodle.

The face in question belonged to Daisy Elizabeth Gandy, the business partner of John Logie Baird, the Scottish scientist who is regarded as the inventors of the mechanical television.

The mechanical television, also known as “the televisor” worked a bit like a radio, but had a rotating mechanism attached that could generate a video to accompany the sound. It preceded the modern television, which creates images using electronic scanning.

In 1924 Baird managed to transmit a flickering image across a distance of 10 feet and the following year, he had a breakthrough when he achieved TV pictures with light and shade.

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The blue plaque commemorating the event can be seen above Bar Italia at number 22 Frith Street in Soho

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/google-doodle/12121474/Who-invented-the-television-John-Logie-Baird-created-the-TV-in-1926.html

[hunter]

1. Quite a few people have built reproductions...

[IcyPeas]

2. I, for one, love television.

thank you John Logie Baird.

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[niyad]

3. the box does, indeed have its moments.