Today’s Google Doodle marks a ground-breaking day for tech innovation in the height of 1926, when the first public demonstration of the mechanical TV took place in a lab in Soho.
John Logie Baird, the Scottish inventor who was an early pioneer of the mechanical television, broadcast the face of his business partner Daisy Elizabeth Gandy on the screen, who was in another room in the building.
The demonstration took place in front of an audience from the Royal Institution and a journalist from the Times. The transmitted images measured 3 by 2 inches (7.6cm by 6cm). Three years after the demonstartion, Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
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