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John
Logie Baird
(1888—1946)
Inventor
of television
Born in Helensburgh, Baird was a serial inventor, devising a
diverse range of products, from as an all-weather sock
to a working television in 1924. He also worked with colour,
3D and the forerunner of what would become the CD. He provided
the BBC with its first sight and sound broadcast and its first
outside broadcast, of the Derby in 1931.
Television
and Me: The Memoirs of John... Logie Baird. It is not generally
known that John Logie Baird, the genius who not only invented
television but went on to develop colour and 3D versions of
it, wrote his own life story. Apart from publication in the
1980s as a Royal Television Society monograph it has been neglected,
which is a pity since it is a highly readable account of the
dramatic pioneering days of television. Baird writes with blunt
candour and caustic wit about the wild escapades of his early
business career and later troubled relationship with Lord Reith
and the fledgling BBC. With much new material, including a recently
discovered final chapter by his wife, this heavily illustrated
edition of his autobiography gives us a very human portrait
of one of the creators of the modern world.
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