Grandson of John Logie Baird visits Helensburgh, as preparations to mark 100 years of TV stepped up

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The grandson of John Logie Baird visited Helensburgh last week, as preparations to mark 100 years of the television were stepped up.Iain Logie Baird, who was brought up in Canada but now lives in Yorkshire, visited his grandfather’s hometown as part of a project celebrating the invention of the television.In 2025, it will be a century since the first pictures were transmitted by Logie Baird, with the Baird TV Centenary Trust working to create an exhibition - and special visual feature at Helensburgh Submarine Centre.And Iain said that preserving his grandfather’s legacy was a key component to the plans.He said: “The exhibition will feature various objects that would come from all across the UK as well as internationally.“It will cover the history of John Logie Baird and his role in influencing television as a technology and a medium.“At the Scottish Submarine Centre we are working to create a project on the multiscreen facility there.“It will illustrate his history and we’ll show footage of early television that has never been seen or only previously been available in a very grainy form.“We’re trying to access the actual films to produce something of around 30 minutes that will be really special.“The invention of television has become a bit cloudy.

Various other names have come forward, like Philo Farnsworth or Vladimir Zworykin.“So we are making sure that everyone knows that John Logie Baird was the first person to get a picture.“Pretty much every historian of television agrees on that.

But, for some reason, that message has become clouded in general knowledge.“We’re going to have an exhibition that features several objects that have never been put on display before.“We’ll cover his entire life; from his birth in