Helensburgh Heritage
Helensburgh Heritage Trust
ONE of the earliest receivers for Helensburgh inventor John Logie Baird's Television Company sold at Bonhams in Knightsbridge, London, on Tuesday November 18 2008 for £12,000 … four times more than its pre-sale estimate.
The rare wireless, which was able to receive some of the world's first television programmes, was bought by the National Museum of Scotland.
By Professor Malcolm Baird, son of John Logie Baird and president of Helensburgh Heritage Trust
SOME 80 years ago, on July 3 1928, Helensburgh’s John Logie Baird achieved colour television for the first time.
The camera and receiver were modified versions of the mechanically scanned system first demonstrated by Baird in January 1926.