In 1918 he resigned from the Clyde Valley company to follow, full time, various entrepreneurial business ventures.īaird had a flair for marketing and showed and displayed an incredibly natural entrepreneurial spirit. In 1916, having obtained a position as a superintendent engineer with the Clyde Valley Electrical Power Company, he applied for military service but was declared medically unfit. In 1914 he was awarded an associateship of the college and then attended Glasgow University as a final year BSc degree student, but he withdrew in March 1915. It is believed that Logie Baird first became interested in television in 1903 after he read a German book on the photoelectric properties of selenium. One of whom, Jack Buchanan, become a star of stage and screen and a financial backer of Baird’s pioneering television development. He even created a basic telephone network with his friends. Whilst at school he designed a remote control for a camera, installed electricity in The Lodge and also built a glider.

Logie Baird had demonstrated a keen interest in science and technology from an early age. He attended Larchfield (now part of Lomond School) from the age of 11 until he was admitted to an electrical engineering course at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College. He was the youngest of the four children of the Revd John Baird, minister of the West Parish Church, Helensburgh, and his wife, Jessie Morrison Inglis.īaird was educated at three schools in Helensburgh, between 18.

The television pioneer John Logie Baird was born on the 13th August, 1888 at The Lodge, 121 West Argyle Street, Helensburgh. Inventor, Entrepreneur, TV Pioneer and the first person to demonstrate a working television

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