Today Is...First Demonstration Of Television

In 1926 a Scotsman demonstrated the very first television and 97 years later and they still can't use it properly, have you seen Take The High Road??
John Logie Baird obviously didn't have many friends as a kid as he was fascinated with a German book he found about the photoelectric properties of selenium and 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.
He invited 50 scientists to his attic and gave a speech promising that this invention will revolutionise the world of entertainment but 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.
He also tinkered with something called Phonovision which was a way to record the television signal and sound on gramophone records which could be played back from a device, which he called a Phonovisor which would record the signals but obviously nobody would want to record what was on the television so he gave up on that idea and set up the Baird Television Development Company.
This was later bought out by the BBC who began broadcasting television programmes and the rest is history although an apology for giving careers to Jeremy Clarkson, Piers Morgan, William Shatner, Jerry Seinfeld and Simon Cowell wouldn't go amiss.