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3 unusual facts about John Logie Baird


Bernard Natan

In November 1929, Natan established France's first television company, Télévision-Baird-Natan.

Eric Boon

This was achieved on Baird projection equipment using a 16-inch projection tube running at 45,000 volts, producing light levels comparable to that of normal films.

Videotelephony

The development of the crucial video technology first started in the latter half of the 1920s in the United Kingdom and the United States, spurred notably by John Logie Baird and AT&T's Bell Labs.


Vladimir K. Zworykin

This electronic system was officially adopted by the BBC whose experimental public broadcasts began in England in November 1936 and initially included the Baird-system.


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