First Public Demonstration of TV by John Logie Baird

Con Houlihan, journalist, is born in Castleisland, Co. Kerry

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First public demonstration of TV by John Logie Baird

John Logie Baird FRSE ( 13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world’s first live working 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.