Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Arthur Davis Thorpe; John Logie Baird NPG x11616

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by London News Agency

Born in Dunbartonshire, Baird began experimenting with television technology in 1922, and built the world's first working television set. He transmitted the first television picture in his laboratory in 1925, the image being the head of a ventriloquist's dummy. He repeated this achievement to members of the Royal Institution in 1926, when he gave the world's first demonstration of true television. The first transatlantic transmission followed in 1928. His system was used by the BBC from 1929 to 1937. He demonstrated colour television with a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.