100 years ago today
John Logie Baird demonstrated a transmitted picture with sound at his workshop at 22 5th street in London's Soho district.
John Logie Baird was from Scotland, but because of poor health moved to
Hastings on the South Coast (on the English Channel). He conducted his research there and moved to the London Studio when he was ready to demonstrate his invention.
I remember TVs when the CRTs only had electrostatic plates and no coils. So you had a picture that was a few inches in diameter or a very dim back projected picture that you watched in a totally dark room. I was four years old when I went to a birthday party and the TV had about a 12" bright picture. That was the first TV I saw that had an electromagnetic yoke to bend the electron beam. I remember being astonished. That was 1951.
Then the TV market exploded in 1953, as everyone wanted to watch the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. That is when we had our first TV at the OP. It was Philips made in Holland. There was only one BBC channel in 1953.
