The color TV pioneer John Logie Baird demonstrated the world's first RGB color transmission in 1928, and also the world's first color broadcast in 1938, in London.

Remarkably, in 1927 Baird also invented the world's first video recording system, " Phonovision ": by modulating the output signal of his TV camera down to the audio range, he was able to capture the signal on a 10-inch wax audio disc using conventional audio recording technology.

John Logie Baird ( 13 August 188814 June 1946 ) was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first practical, publicly demonstrated television system, and also the world's first fully electronic colour television tube.

In 2006, Logie Baird was also named as one of the 10 greatest Scottish scientists in history, having been listed in the National Library of Scotland's ' Scottish Science Hall of Fame '.

From 1929 to 1932, the BBC transmitters were used to broadcast television programmes using the 30-line Baird system, and from 1932 to 1935, the BBC also produced the programmes in their own studio at 16 Portland Place.

He also invented a thermal undersock ( the Baird undersock ), which was moderately successful.

Executive Decision, ( also known as Critical Decision ) is a 1996 action film, directed by Stuart Baird and starring Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo and Steven Seagal.

The character was originally cast to be played by a woman: Dorothea Baird, the actress also playing Mary Darling.

He founded Branstad and Associates, LLC and was also a partner in the firm of Kaufman, Pattee, Branstad & Miller, and a financial advisor for Robert W. Baird and Co.

A new residential community located on Baird Creek ( also known as Beards Creek ) called Baird Creek Point.

Innovatory puppeteers such as Tony Sarg, Waldo Lanchester, John Wright, Bil Baird, Joan Baixas, Sergei Obratsov, Philipe Genty, Peter Schumann, Dattatreya Aralikatte, Jim Henson, Dadi Pudumjee, and Julie Taymor have also continued to develop the forms and content of puppetry, so that the phrase ' puppet theatre ' is no longer limited to traditional forms of marionettes, glove, or rod puppets.

Baird also made the world's first color broadcast on February 4, 1938, sending a mechanically scanned 120-line image from Baird's Crystal Palace studios to a projection screen at London's Dominion Theatre.

In 1958, he starred in an ABC children's television special Art Carney Meets Peter and the Wolf, which also featured the Bil Baird Marionettes.

His first wife was the artist Margarite Frances Baird, also known as Peggy Baird.

In the 1950s, Bil Baird and Cora Eisenberg presented a great number of marionette shows for television, and were also responsible for the Lonely Goatherd sequence from the classic film The Sound of Music.

Bil Baird also wrote a classic book on his work.

The town is also notable as the birthplace of John Logie Baird the inventor of television, Academy Award-nominated actress Deborah Kerr and Jack Buchanan.

His mechanical technologies ( also pioneered by John Logie Baird ) were later overtaken by electronic television such as devised by Vladimir Zworykin and Philo Farnsworth.

His father was also a big influence on Baird's interest in nature, taking Baird on walks and gardening with him.

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Baird requested police protection for the event, the first time he did so for an event of this type, and Baird also brought along a private bodyguard.

Particularly in Britain, many historians credit Baird with being the first to produce a live, moving, greyscale television image from reflected light.

Baird achieved this, where other inventors had failed, by obtaining a better photoelectric cell and improving the signal conditioning from the photocell and the video amplifier.

On 26 January 1926, Baird repeated the transmission for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times in his laboratory at 22 Frith Street in the Soho district of London.

Baird then set up the Baird Television Development Company Ltd, which in 1928 made the first transatlantic television transmission, from London to Hartsdale, New York, and the first television programme for the BBC.

On 3 November 1936, from Alexandra Palace located on the high ground of the north London ridge, the BBC began alternating Baird 240-line transmissions with EMI's electronic scanning system which had recently been improved to 405 lines after a merger with Marconi.

Baird suffered from cold feet, and after a number of trials, he found that an extra layer of cotton inside the sock provided warmth.

According to Malcolm Baird, his son, what is known is that in 1926 Baird filed a patent for a device that formed images from reflected radio waves, a device remarkably similar to radar, and that he was in correspondence with the British government at the time.

Author Kathy Baird is from Shepherd.

On February 9, 1928, Hartsdale became the birthplace of the American " Couch Potato " when the Scottish inventor John Logie Baird ( 1888 – 1946 ) transmitted the world's first inter-continental short-wave television signal from a transmitter ( call sign 2KZ ) in Coulsdon, Surrey ( a suburb of London ) to his colleague O. G. Hutchinson in the cellar of Robert M. Hart, an amateur radio operator ( call sign 2CVJ ) in Hartsdale.

The system was originally known as " sequential scanning " ( a more technically correct description ) when it was used in the Baird 240 line television transmissions from Alexandra Palace, United Kingdom in 1936.

From 1958, she lived for three years with fellow actor Tony Baird but, every time her parents visited, she asked Baird to remove all of his belongings from their London flat.

" Of the break-up, which was finally triggered by Sims returning from a tour to find Baird had not done any washing or housework, she wrote " I could tell that he was genuinely heartbroken, and so was I, but I had to do it for my own survival.

After the break-up from Baird, Sims followed a relationship with John Walters, whom she had known for a long time, as he had been assistant stage manager for the play High Spirits in which she appeared.

The plurality asserted that the right to abortion is grounded in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and the plurality reiterated what the Court had said in Eisenstadt v. Baird: " f the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child.

It is believed that he was first drawn to one victim, Justin Baird, a local actor, since Baird had been identified at RPlace as the official taking in fundraising dollars from Bunny Brigade volunteers in that central location as they returned from their collection rounds.

Wright ( who suffered from Parkinson's disease ) continued to publish stories by Lovecraft, Smith, and Quinn, though he was more selective than Baird ; he rejected Lovecraft's " At the Mountains of Madness ", " The Shadow Over Innsmouth " and ( initially ) " The Call of Cthulhu ", among other stories.

Other NHLers hailing from Flin Flon include Ken Baird, Ken Baumgartner, Matt Davidson, Kim Davis, Dean Evason, Al Hamilton, Ted Hampson ( who was the second player to ever receive the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy ), Gerry Hart, Ron Hutchinson, George Konik, Ray Maluta, Dunc McCallum, Eric Nesterenko, Mel Pearson, Reid Simpson, David Struch and Ernie Wakely.

They had had an ' innocent ' romance at the time and embarked on a more serious relationship after Baird.

Hunting for meat and hides has substantially reduced their numbers and, more recently, habitat loss has resulted in the conservation watch-listing of all four species: both the Brazilian tapir and the Malayan tapir are classified as vulnerable ; and the Baird ’ s tapir and the mountain tapir are endangered.

Bruce opted for Baird partly because of his political experience and partly because he was a more modest figure than the aristocratic alternatives.

Often traveling by foot, Baird hiked more than 2, 100 miles in 1842 alone.

Baird said in a BBC interview “ There ’ s nothing soft about making someone confront what ’ s causing them to commit crime-it ’ s a very much more challenging prospect than sitting in a prison cell.

Opposition MPPs, including New Democrat Peter Kormos and Conservative John Baird, suggested that Curling favoured his Liberal colleagues, sanctioning Conservative and NDP members for behaviour he would more often let slide from Liberals.

In response, elder and church spokesman, Al Baird, says that " e're no more a cult than Jesus was a cult ", and he insists that the church does not condone harassment and is merely an evangelical church out to " share Jesus with everybody ".

Since 1993 Jessie Little Doe Baird, a Mashpee Wampanoag, has led the effort to revive the language within the Wampanoag nation more than a century after it was last spoken.

While Baird had previously been associated with moderate Tories such as Timbrell and Beatty, he became associated with the more right-wing ideology of the Mike Harris-led Ontario PC party upon entering provincial politics.

Baird was returned to a more prominent cabinet position in August 2002 after Eves separated the ministries of Environment and Energy and appointed Baird to head the latter department.

Opening in 1967, the Bil Baird Marionette Theater at 59 Barrow Street in Greenwich Village presented plays for more than a decade.

The race was won by Paul Morris and Craig Baird in a BMW 320i run by BMW Motorsport Australia, however this team was disqualified as Baird had violated a race rule prohibiting drivers from driving more than three and a half hours consecutively in any one stint.

For this reason, a vertical, portrait image made more sense to Baird than a horizontal, landscape image.

He has always given whole-hearted commitment to the team and provided a more than useful option which allowed Chris Baird to move into the centre of the defence.

creator-in-chief of the Violin Octet, author of more than 100 technical publications, editor of two volumes of collected papers in violin acoustics, four grants from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music, recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, an Honorary Fellowship from the Acoustical Society of America, and four honorary doctorates.

During the 1970s the House of Fraser Group acquired more companies including: T. Baird & Sons Ltd of Scotland, Switzer & Co. Ltd, Dublin, Ireland and E. Dingle & Co. Ltd, Chiesmans Ltd, Hide & Co and the Army & Navy Stores in southern England, as well as a number of independent stores, totalling over fifty stores during the decade.

In this new format, they went on to record several more albums, with Baird now writing the bulk of the material.

Their relationship began to improve as he neared adolescence, though, and in the words of his half-sister, Julia Baird: " As he grew older, John would stay with us more often.