THE INVENTOR OF TELEVISION

John Logie Baird was born in Scotland in 1888. He was always interested in electronics. He studied electrical engineering at the Royal Technical College in Glasgow, but because of the World War he couldn’t finish his school. He worked as an engineer in England, but he didn’t like his job. He was bored and unhappy. In 1914 he decided to leave his job and become an inventor. It was his biggest dream. His first inventions weren’t very successful and when he was thirty five he didn’t have any money at all.

He was a very hard-working man and he never gave up. In 1923 he started to make a machine to send sound and pictures. Soon he could send pictures as far as two or three meters. He showed his new invention in London in 1926. It was the first TV show ever! He was the first man to televise pictures of objects in motion. Logie Baird made the first TV with a very big mechanical camera but its pictures weren’t very good. The first home television appeared in the 1930s and the cameras were electronic.

Today, television is important in our lives. People think television is one of the best ways of getting news and entertainment. It triggers imagination, raises curiosity, encourages education and gathers millions around common interests. We can see what is happening around the world: Sports, wars and natural disasters. We laugh at comedy shows, learn about animals, nature and science. People spend hours in front of TV. Although it has some disadvantages, still today in every house there is at least one television. This means that there are more than 750 million of TVs in the world.