Thousands still tune in to black and white televisions Nov 12, 2009
Ian Lavender, who played Private Pike in the series, recalled: "I remember we bought our first colour television set to watch the 3rd series of Dad's Army, which had been recorded in colour. "I was also the first actor to be killed by a colour TV set on colour TV in Z Cars when a robbery went wrong and the TV set was dropped on me from a great height by Nicholas Jones". Iain Logie Baird, curator of television at the National Media Museum in Bradford and a grandson of John Logie Baird, the... (BBC News -- UK)
Getting retro: Great British TV sets Aug 29, 2009
Iain Logie Baird is Curator of Television at the National Media Museum in Bradford and grandson of the television's inventor John Logie Baird. He showed BBC News some of the British TV sets in the museum's collection. (BBC News -- Technology)
'Oldest working television' in Britain found Jul 21, 2009
"The cabinet was beautifully restored by the previous owner," he explained,' but my aim is to gradually restore its electronics to its true 1936 magnificence," he said. Marconi also made the "Instantaneous Television Camera" shown in 1936 But the Marconiphone 702 still works as a modern television. It has been hooked up to a Freeview box so that it can show digital channels, although Mr Borinsky has had to install a standards converter so that a modern television signal can be seen. Mr Borinsky... (BBC News -- UK)
World's oldest man dies Jul 19, 2009
Events he lived through included the death of queen Victoria in 1901, the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, the invention of television by John Logie Baird in the 1920s and the Wall Street crash of 1929. A mechanic in the Royal Naval Air Service, he took part in the naval Battle of Jutland in 1916 and was one of the founding members of the Royal Air Force, which was formed in 1918. (iAfrica.com)
