Word: baird
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Noctovision. Last year's tousle-headed John L. Baird* invited members of the Royal Institution to drop in at his London laboratory for a demonstration of television. The two score gentlemen who went were impressed deeply by the ingenuity of Mr. Baird's "optical lever," a series of whirling lenses mounted on discs, which break up an optical image into minute constituent parts. They were even more impressed by the Baird photo-electric cell, of the colloidal selenium type, which could capture and transmit the minute image parts at unprecedented speed. Last week, between sessions of the British Association, members...
Transatlantic Television. Long-haired John L. Baird, young perfecter of television, announced that he had arranged with British postal authorities to attempt transmission of visual impressions across the Atlantic on the Government radio system. He added that he and the Columbia Graphophone Co. had succeeded in translating the electrical impulses or television into impressions on a phonograph record, whence they can be retranslated, making sights as well as sounds issue from the most modern version of a "music...
...Derby's Sections 7 and 8 Harvard 6 Mr. Damon's Sections 2, 3, 5, and 6 New Lect. Hall English 29b Sever 11 English 33 Memorial Hall Government 16b Sem. Mus. 1 Greek 2 Sever 30 History 13 Emerson D History 52b Sever 2 History 68 Baird-MacKinnon Sever 29 Merriman-Yang Sever 31 History of Science 1 Emerson J Italian 1 Emerson J Mathematics A V Sever 35 Mathematics C I Mr. Hinrichsen, sect. 1 Sever 36 Mr. Jonah, sect. 2 Sever 32 Mr. Robinson, sect. 3 Sever 30 Mathematics 3 Sever 13 Music 4 Anderson-Krech Pierian...
Method: To obtain satisfactory television on a large screen, 300,000 optical fragments must be transmitted and received each second. The best speed of Inventor Baird of London has been 30,000 to the second. By the new Bell system, a rate of 45,000 to a second is maintained. In the new system, as in Inventor Baird's, the object to be transmitted is divided up into many parts by beams of light flowing through a revolving disc. The variations of light and shade on the face are changed into variations of electrical current by three large photo...
Most picturesque of the fathers of television is Captain John L. Baird (TIME, Feb. 22, 1926), long-haired, bespectacled Scotsman, who gave birth to his ideas in an attic. Inventor Baird prefers baggy, woolly suits with a potent plaid; he has been so heavily handicapped by lack of money that parts of his first apparatus were improvised from dismembered bicycles, shoeboxes, wax, twine, pliers, screws, gimcracks. Last week, the manna of money fell thickly about him. A company with a capital of $625,000 was incorporated in London to exploit and perfect his process of television...