Joseph Bazalgette (1819 – 1891)
As chief engineer to London’s metropolitan board of works in the mid-19th century,...
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Month: March 2013
Sir Joseph Banks (1743 – 1820)
Banks was a British explorer and naturalist who, as long-time president of the Royal Society,...
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The Queen’s Messenger
The play was “The Queen’s Messenger”, a melodramatic piece by London-born J....
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The Man With The Flower in His Mouth – the world’s first television play [video]
When television broadcasts over the BBC finally launched on 30 September 1929, a problem remained....
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How “Stereoscopic” Television is Shown
John L. Baird Produces Moving Images Which Are Given the Appearance of Solidity Mr. Baird (above)...
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Transatlantic Television in 1928
(1) [from the New York Times, February 9th 1928] HARTSDALE, N.Y. Feb.8 – A man and a woman...
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The Televisor. Successful Baird Demonstration [Video]
[jwplayer mediaid=”5554″] I was definitely able to transmit the living image, and it...
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John Logie Baird (1888 – 1946)
Baird was a Scottish engineer, most famous for being the first person to demonstrate a working...
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William Blake Glossary of Terms, Names, & Concepts
The following is a revised and expanded version of “A Glossary of Terms, Names, and Concepts...
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William Blake Specific Bibliographies
Color Printed Drawings Butlin, Martin. “The Evolution of Blake’s Large Color Prints of...
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