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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 94

Documents
John Logie Baird
1934 (1 October) typed letter on Baird Television Limited paper to The Metropole Cinema in Victoria, "... I have great pleasure in congratulating the Metropole Cinema on the approach of its fifth birthday and in wishing you continued success. / I first made the aquaintance of the Metropole in the summer of 1932, the occasion when the Derby was televised. The Metropole is to be complimented on being the first cinema to show a topical event to its audience by television" and is signed "John L. Baird". With trimmed photograph of Baird. Photo

John Logie Baird FRSE (1888 – 1946) was a Scottish engineer, innovator, one of the inventors of the mechanical television, demonstrating the first working television system on 26 January 1926, and inventor of both the first publicly demonstrated colour television system, and the first purely electronic colour television picture tube.

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