Comment by bovermyer
10 hours ago
The article has a photo of a plaque putting Baird's death in 1946, less than 40 years old.
What happened?
10 hours ago
The article has a photo of a plaque putting Baird's death in 1946, less than 40 years old.
What happened?
He was 57, born in 1888. Died of a stroke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logie_Baird#Death
One of his electro-mechanical units was on display in Victoria, Australia. Most amazing assemblage, you can sort-of get the idea from things.
I read online that at his end, Baird was proposing a TV scan-rate we'd class as HD quality, which lost out to a 405 line standard (which proceeded 625/colour)
There is also a quality of persistence in his approach to things, he was the kind of inventor who doesn't stop inventing.