* 1888 – John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer and inventor ( d. 1946 )

* 1926: John Logie Baird gives the world's first demonstration of a working television system.

* 1925 – John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.

* 1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.

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.

Using a Nipkow disk, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird succeeded in demonstrating the transmission of moving silhouette images in London in 1925, and of moving, monochromatic images in 1926.

* January 26 – John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system.

* John Logie Baird invents the first working mechanical television system ( 1925 ).

** John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer ( b. 1888 )

Note that John Logie Baird had previously broadcast the Derby horse race in Britain in 1931.

** John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor ( d. 1946 )

* October 30 – John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.

This is just over a year after John Logie Baird of Scotland first demonstrated a mechanical television system to the members of the Royal Society in London.

Famous names include the physicist, Lord Kelvin, ' father of economics ' Adam Smith, James Watt, John Logie Baird, Joseph Black, Sir John Boyd Orr, Professor Sam Karunaratne, Francis Hutcheson and Joseph Lister.

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.

John Logie Baird is buried with his mother, father and wife in Helensburgh Cemetery.

* Baird, John Logie, Television and Me: The Memoirs of John Logie Baird.

* Burns, Russell, John Logie Baird, television pioneer.

* Kamm, Antony, and Malcolm Baird, John Logie Baird: A Life.

* McArthur, Tom, and Peter Waddell, The Secret Life of John Logie Baird.

* Rowland, John, The Television Man: The Story of John Logie Baird.

* John Logie Baird's entry on Helensburgh Heroes web site

A number of such systems were used experimentally starting as early as the 1920s, the best-known being John Logie Baird's system that was broadcast for a time in Britain.

* August 22 – The BBC starts a regular television service, using John Logie Baird's 30-line system.

From John Logie Baird's original apparatus to a Jim'll Fix It badge ; where important televisions and studio cameras sit alongside Wallace, Gromit and the Play School toys.

In 1783, George Washington traveled through Warwick, stopping at Baird's Tavern and spending the night in the home of John Hathorn.

According to Baird's Manual, nine undergraduates at Union College in Schenectady, New York — John Hart Hunter, John McGeoch, Isaac W. Jackson, Thomas Hun, Orlando Meads, James Proudfit, and Joseph Anthony Constant of the class of 1826, and Arthur Burtis and Joseph Law of the Class of 1827 — established the Society on November 26, 1825 from an informal group calling itself The Philosophers, which was established by Hunter, Jackson, and Hun in 1823.

John Wesley Powell spoke at Baird's funeral.

" The system demonstrated was from John Logie Baird's Baird Television Company.

Baird's corps joined Sir John Moore's army at Mayorga on 20 December, and Craufurd's command was repeatedly engaged, especially at Castro Gonzalo on the 28th.

( John Logie Baird's earlier transmitter and TV studios were a separate development at the other end of the Palace and perished with it in 1936.

The BBC had been experimenting with John Logie Baird's primitive 30-line television technology since the previous year, running test transmissions both from Baird's own premises and from their own radio headquarters at Savoy Hill.

John Baird's 1928 color television experiments had inspired Goldmark's more advanced field-sequential color system.

Astell acted with her husband on his television series, The Cyril Fletcher Show, and was one of the first people to appear in John Logie Baird's experimental television on the BBC's 30 line shows.

In Britain, John Scott Russell made an experimental study of the Doppler effect ( 1848 ).

In contrast, John Bell, in his 1964 paper, showed that quantum mechanics and the class of hidden variable theories Einstein favored would lead to different experimental results: different by a factor of for certain correlations.

The argument and the evidence was further strengthened by Claude Pouillet in 1827 and 1838, and reasoned from experimental observations by John Tyndall in 1859, and more fully quantified by Svante Arrhenius in 1896.

Seconds ( 1966 ) tells of an elderly man John Randolph given the body of a young man Rock Hudson through experimental surgery.

The album was produced by John Cale, a former member of New York's experimental rock group The Velvet Underground.

Ono collaborated with experimental luminaries such as John Cage and jazz legend Ornette Coleman.

The Synclavier was also employed by experimental musicians, such as John McLaughlin, Kraftwerk, Laurie Anderson, Frank Zappa and Peter Buffett who used it extensively in their music.

* John C. Shedd and Mayo D. Hershey ," The History of Ohm's Law ", Popular Science, December 1913, pages 599-614, Bonnier Corporation ISSN 0161-7370, gives the history of Ohm's investigations, prior work, Ohm's false equation in the first paper, illustration of Ohm's experimental apparatus.

Because of his discouragingly minor role in the band, and under the pressure of The Mundanes ' unsuccessful search for success, Linnell began recording music with John Flansburgh, though his family did not support the transition from what they considered to be a more professional band to an experimental one.

As an example, John Bishop described the book's legacy as that of " the single most intentionally crafted literary artifact that our culture has produced [...] and, certainly, one of the great monuments of twentieth-century experimental letters.

The origins of Fluxus lie in many of the concepts explored by composer John Cage in his experimental music of the 1950s.

A major figure in 20th century music, Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminate music, a development associated with the experimental New York School of composers also including John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown.

The precursors that influenced the development of the genre included acts such as electronic group Kraftwerk, experimental rock The Velvet Underground and Frank Zappa, psychedelic rock artists such as Jimi Hendrix, and composers such as John Cage.

Other examples are the 1992 compilation Switched On, named after a 1969 Wendy Carlos album, and the 1992 single " John Cage Bubblegum ", named after experimental composer John Cage.

The design of this new video installation, " the video lounge ", was supervised by experimental video artists John Sanborn and Kit Fitzgerald who chose Merrill to direct the performance and programming.

* D. Bernard Amos, professor of immunology and experimental surgery at Duke University ( 1962-1993 ), attended Sir John Cass Technical School

British experimental composers use the toy piano frequently, especially the Promenade Theatre Orchestra ( 1969 – 73 ), a quartet of composer / performers ( members included John White, Alec Hill, Hugh Shrapnel, and Christopher Hobbs ), whose central instrumentation consisted of four matched French Michelsonne toy pianos and Hohner reed organs.

John Davies Cale, OBE ( born 9 March 1942 ) is a Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground.

At a Cannes Film Festival during the 1970s, Black joined George Harrison, Ringo Starr and popular music star Marc Bolan to attend a screening of the John Lennon-Yoko Ono experimental film Erection.

Other important practitioners of the form include Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, John Cheever, Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff, and the more experimental Donald Barthelme.

Brown left and was replaced by David Pajo ( formerly of Slint ) for 1996's Millions Now Living Will Never Die, which showed up on many year-end best of lists, and the 20 minute Djed was described by critic John Bush as proof that " Tortoise made experimental rock do double duty as evocative, beautiful music.

* John Cage, experimental composer

The band released a self-titled album ( produced by John Zorn ) in 1991, and the experimental Disco Volante in 1995.