LaMarcus Adna Thompson
(March 8, 1848 – May 8, 1919)
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16
Jun
HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY IN 1884
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03
Mar
INVENTOR BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1847
Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922)
Bell was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor,
scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting
the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the
American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T)
in 1885.
Bell at the opening of the long-distance line
from New York to Chicago in 1892.
Melville House, the Bells’ first home in North America, now
a National Historic Site of Canada.
Bell statue by A. E. Cleeve Horne in front of the Bell
Telephone Building of Brantford, Ontario.
11
Feb
HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY
CARLATA BRADLEY
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26
Jan
DEMONSTRATION OF ‘’TELEVISOR’’ IN 1926
On January 26, 1926, John Logie Baird (1888 – 1946) a Scottish
inventor, gave the first public demonstration of a true television
system in London (above), which launched a revolution in the
communication and entertainment fields.
Baird’s invention, a pictorial-transmission machine he called
a “televisor,” used mechanical rotating disks to scan moving
images into electronic impulses. This information was then
transmitted by cable to a screen where it showed up as a low-
resolution pattern of light and dark.
Baird’s first television program showed the heads of two
ventriloquist dummies, which he operated in front of the
camera apparatus out of view of the audience (below).
The original television model, invented by the Scottish
television pioneer John Logie Baird.
This image is the first recorded picture taken from a TV
screen.
12
Dec
A NEW EREA OF COMMUNICATION IN 1901
Irish-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi ushered in a new era of
global communications, sending the first radio transmission
across the Atlantic Ocean on this day in history, Dec. 12, 1901.
The message was the letter "s" in Morse code (dot-dot-dot). But
it proved after years of advances by Marconi that radio could
make the world a smaller place.
The wireless signal traveled 2,000 miles from a transmitting
station in Poldhu, Cornwall, in the far southwestern corner of
England, to a receiving station in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi
(25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937)
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