In his lab 100 years ago, inventor John Logie Baird delivered the first public demonstration of true television. What exactly did viewers see that day?

On a cold Tuesday in London in 1926, a tallish but sickly and eccentric Scotsman invited members of Britain’s Royal Institution to look at a homemade contraption he had assembled and that he had been ...

One hundred years after the birth of television in Britain, Magic Rays of Light author John Wyver looks back at the rapid development of the new medium during the 1930s – a lost era that saw a huge ...

Frith Street in Soho, where John Logie Baird gave the world's first public television demonstration in 1926, now houses a ...

The proportion of daily viewing on TV sets declined from 61% at the start of 2017 to 48% late last year, according to market ...

LEO MCKINSTRY: Those allowing Britain's spirit of innovation to slide should heed the story of a true great.

The unassuming Bar Italia on Frith Street, Soho, was once a laboratory where the first public demonstration of television was given on January 26, 1926 ...

In the June 1925 issue of Popular Science, Newton Burke wrote: "J.L. Baird, inventor of the promising new system of radiovision." Television’s broadcast debut in 1936 unfolded like a plot made for the ...

On 26 January 1926, John Logie Baird demonstrated his 'televisor' in public. It was the prototype for television. His grandson, Iain Logie Baird, spoke about it in 2010. Show more On 26 January 1926, ...