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Historic Figures: John Logie Baird - Capsule biography from the BBC.
Baird Television - A site about the history of television, focusing on the television pioneering work of John Logie Baird.
Eye of the World (Part III) - Interview with Iain Baird, grandson of John Logie Baird, concerning the Museum of Television (MZTV) in Toronto.
Eye of the World (Part II) - Second part of the television engineer's biography written by John Logie Bird's son, Malcolm H. I. Baird.
Eye of the World (Part I) - Biography about John Logie Baird, one of the people credited with the invention of television.
Baird Televisor - How to build a Baird Televisor. Also contains many detailed references to Baird's history.
Glasgow University Archive - Brief description of Baird's university attendance.

Wikipedia Articles

John Logie Baird - John Logie Baird (August 13 1888 – June 14 1946) was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first working television system. Although Baird's electromechanical system was eventually displaced by purely electronic systems (such as those of Vladimir Zworykin and Philo Farnsworth), his early successes demonstrating ...
Logie Award - The Logie Awards are the Australia television industry awards, which have been presented annually since 1959. Renamed by Graham Kennedy after he won the first 'Star Of The Year award' , the name 'Logie' awards honours John Logie Baird who invented television as a practical medium.
Screen (journal) - Screen is a journal of film and television studies based at the John Logie Baird Centre at the University of Glasgow and published by Oxford University Press. It is co-edited by John Caughie, Alan Durant, Simon Frith, Sandra Kemp, Norman King and Annette Kuhn.
Phonovision - Phonovision, an experimental process for recording a television signal on phonograph records, was developed in the late 1920s in London by Scottish television pioneer John Logie Baird. The objective was not simply to record video, but to record it synchronously, as Baird intended playback from an inexpensive playback device, which he called a 'Phonovisor'.
Video camera - A video camera is a camera used for electronic motion picture acquisition, initially developed by the television industry but now common in other applications as well. The earliest video cameras were those of John Logie Baird, based on the electromechanical Nipkow disk and used by the BBC in experimental broadcasts through the 1930s.