Special Guest Blogger: John Logie Baird

In 1928 a Scotsman invented the television and 92 years later and they still can't use it properly, have you seen Take The High Road??
My fascination with moving images on a screen started when i was a kid and read a German book about the photoelectric properties of selenium which meant that i didn't have many friends so i had to come up with something cool.
I began experimenting with television by transmitting outlines of objects and successfully televised human faces that were visible enough to be recognizable although they looked like ghosts, people would think they were looking at spirits and faint during the experiments and those were Scots, for God's sake. They eat haggis on purpose.
Upon giving the first public demonstration of my new invention which i called The Televisor, i invited 50 scientists to my attic and gave a speech promising that this invention will revolutionise the world of entertainment. As the world of entertainment up until then had consisted of Charlie Chaplin waving his cane in an amusing manner and walking like he had hemorrhoids, it wasn't much of a boast but i think that most people are glad that i invented the box of delights that sits in the corner of the room and keeps men quiet for hours when golf comes on.
Not to say that everything on my television was brilliant, just let me throw out the name Lee Majors and let it rest there.
Something else i was tinkering with but nobody had a use for was Phonovision which was a way to record the television signal and sound on gramophone records which could be played back from a device, which i called a Phonovisor but obviously nobody would want to record what was on the television so i gave up on that idea which is a shame as i had quite high hopes for that, especially if a more smaller, reliable disk could be used, something a bit more compact or Versatile to record onto and they could have collected all the same of one show and made them into a box set.
I set up the Baird Television Development Company and was bought out by the BBC who began broadcasting television programmes and the rest is history but i feel partly responsible for giving careers to Jeremy Clarkson, Piers Morgan, William Shatner, Jerry Seinfeld and Simon Cowell, sorry about that.