When a person has amnesia, how can they remember how to speak? Jul 13, 2008
I guess it's going to depend on whether you're Guglielmo Marconi, John Logie Baird or Konrad Zuse. Paul Coleman, Barton ACT. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
I can see clearly now the HD has come May 4, 2008
The device that John Logie Baird first knocked together out of a washstand and a t 00004000 ea chest now comes in plasma, LCD and Jumbotron; it's beamed to us down phone lines, over the internet, from space; it comes in High-Definition, Super Hi-Vision and even, if BBC boffins have their way, in 3-D.. And now, from the unlikely bedfellows of BBC and ITV, comes a really Big Idea: it's called Freesat. (Times Online)
Why we carry on laughing at TV's joke May 3, 2008
Logie is the middle name of the Scottish television pioneer, John Logie Baird, who pioneered an early TV system that was later abandoned by the BBC. He visited Australia in 1956 when TV was introduced here. As I said, the snootier they are, the harder they fall. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
DSG is first to ditch analogue televisions Jan 23, 2008
While a number of technologies have fallen by the wayside over recent years, the history of the analogue television set is much richer and can be traced back to the 1920s, when John Logie Baird first demonstrated how the technology could transmit moving images in 1925. It was not until the launch of satellite television services in the late 1980s that the limited functionality of the analogue signal, which only supports five channels in the UK, was thrown into the limelight. (Independent)
Fury As Sun Man Says Scots Sponge Off English Oct 14, 2007
"The spirit of Scottish enterprise goes back hundreds of years. "Adam Smith explained markets and free enterprise, Robert Dunlop brought us Dunlop tyres, John Logie Baird brought us TV, Alexander Bell gave us the telephone, John MacAdam gave us Tarmac. It was even a Scot, William Patterson, who founded the Bank of England. (Glasgow Daily Record)
Sydney Writers' Festival opening night address May 31, 2007
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, John Logie Baird invented television, James Watt invented the steam engine, James Dunlop invented the rubber tyre, Alexander Fleming invented penicillin, Walter Scott invented the historical novel, and my uncle Peter invented a new use for the common or garden bicycle pump, which involved him sucking a load of whisky out of the bottle with the pump and then siphoning it into his mouth as he cycled to mass on a Sunday morning. All of this, to my... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
God vs. Evolution in Kansas Again Feb 15, 2007
John Logie Baird gave the world s first public demonstration of a working television system that transmitted live moving images with tone graduation (grayscale) on 26 January 1926 at his laboratory in London, England. And Ford stole the idea of an SUV from Ranger Rover. (New York Times)
