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John Logie Baird

1888 - 1946

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John Logie Baird (; 13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first mechanical television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first viable purely electronic colour television picture tube. In 1928, the Baird Television Development Company achieved the first transatlantic television transmission. Baird's early technological successes and his role in the practical introduction of broadcast television for home entertainment have earned him a prominent place in television's history. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Logie Baird is the 27th most popular inventor (up from 41st in 2019), the 301st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 289th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Inventor.

John Logie Baird is most famous for inventing the television.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, John Logie Baird ranks 27 out of 426. Before him are George Stephenson, Hans Lippershey, Eli Whitney, Lee de Forest, Bartolomeo Cristofori, and Werner von Siemens. After him are Denis Papin, Thomas Newcomen, Abbas ibn Firnas, Jimmy Wales, Ernő Rubik, and Samuel Colt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, John Logie Baird ranks 15. Before him are Shmuel Yosef Agnon, José Raúl Capablanca, Roland Garros, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Nikolai Bukharin, and Nestor Makhno. After him are Giorgio de Chirico, Abul Kalam Azad, Carl Schmitt, C. V. Raman, Jean Monnet, and Frits Zernike. Among people deceased in 1946, John Logie Baird ranks 16. Before him are Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Gerhart Hauptmann, Hans Frank, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Mikhail Kalinin, and Alexander Alekhine. After him are Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Manuel de Falla, Werner von Blomberg, Fritz Sauckel, and Gertrude Stein.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Logie Baird ranks 301 out of 8,785. Before him are George Best (1946), Alfred Marshall (1842), Saint Ursula (400), Norman Haworth (1883), Edward Smith (1850), and John Sulston (1942). After him are Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy (1936), John Law (1671), Peter Higgs (1929), Harold Godwinson (1022), Henry IV of England (1367), and Michael York (1942).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, John Logie Baird ranks 5. Before him are James Watt (1736), Alexander Graham Bell (1847), Charles Babbage (1791), and George Stephenson (1781). After him are Thomas Newcomen (1663), John Herschel (1792), Frank Whittle (1907), Richard Trevithick (1771), John Boyd Dunlop (1840), Henry Fox Talbot (1800), and Rowland Hill (1795).

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