Source C John Logie Baird with his ‘televisor’ (initially he used the heads of ventriloquists’ dummies as the heat from the lamps used in his transmitter was so strong)
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A hundred years ago John Logie Baird (an eccentric Scottish inventor) demonstrated his ‘televisor’ at 22 Frith Street in Soho, London. The demonstration was the culmination of years of experiments. By the end of 1925 he had managed to transmit and receive an image of a ventriloquist dummy (named ‘Stooky Bill’). He had also transmitted the face of a local office boy, William Edward Tayton, but he had not done so publicly.
Extract from an article in the Hastings Independent from 6 September 2023 about Baird’s laboratory in Hastings:
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