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Invention of TV

JOHN LOGIE BAIRD,who is called 'the father of television',was born in Scotland in 1888.He became an inventor at the age of 26.His first inventions were electrically-heated socks and air -filled shoes,but these were not very successful.

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1. In 1923,he became interested in the idea of pictures by radio.He started to work in his bedroombroadcastclearcompetitionpatentshowedsucceededto developtransmittedused I don't know with a torch,a knitting needle,a few parts from radio,a wooden box and some cardboard.

2. He worked for several months,and the following years he bedroombroadcastclearcompetitionpatentshowedsucceededto developtransmittedused I don't know in transmitting the first 'television' picture a few metres across the room.

3. Baird's television was not very bedroombroadcastclearcompetitionpatentshowedsucceededto developtransmittedused I don't know , but people were very interested,and he tried to make it better.

4. In 1926,he bedroombroadcastclearcompetitionpatentshowedsucceededto developtransmittedused I don't know it to the public at the Royal Society.

5. In 1928,he bedroombroadcastclearcompetitionpatentshowedsucceededto developtransmittedused I don't know the first picture across the Atlantic.

6. In 1929,the BBC,and the German post office began to bedroombroadcastclearcompetitionpatentshowedsucceededto developtransmittedused I don't know TV with his system.

7. There was another system in America called the MARCONI-EMI system. That system bedroombroadcastclearcompetitionpatentshowedsucceededto developtransmittedused I don't know electronics instead of moving parts.

8. In 1936,the BBC decided to have a bedroombroadcastclearcompetitionpatentshowedsucceededto developtransmittedused I don't know between the two systems to see which one was better.In the end ,they chose the electronic system from EMI.

9. Baird was very unhappy,but there was nothing that he could do.He had not been given a bedroombroadcastclearcompetitionpatentshowedsucceededto developtransmittedused I don't know for his invention.

10. He made very little money from it.For the rest of his life he tried bedroombroadcastclearcompetitionpatentshowedsucceededto developtransmittedused I don't know new ideas,but had no success.In the end ,he became ill,and died in 1946 at the age of 57.