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Google Doodle celebrates 90 years since first mechanical TV demonstration

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By Jessica Goodfellow, Media Reporter

January 26, 2016 | 2 min read

Today’s Google Doodle marks a ground-breaking day for tech innovation in the height of 1926, when the first public demonstration of the mechanical TV took place in a lab in Soho.

John Logie Baird, the Scottish inventor who was an early pioneer of the mechanical television, broadcast the face of his business partner Daisy Elizabeth Gandy on the screen, who was in another room in the building.

The demonstration took place in front of an audience from the Royal Institution and a journalist from the Times. The transmitted images measured 3 by 2 inches (7.6cm by 6cm). Three years after the demonstartion, the first mass-produced television sets were on the market.

Baird continued to develop the mechanical TV and in 1928 the Baird Television Development Company, which he founded, achieved the first transatlantic television transmission.

The BBC used Baird's company for its television broadcasts between 1929 till 1937, when the mechanical TV was surpassed by the electronic television in the 1930s.

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