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	John Logie Baird
		Not to be deterred, Baird enrolled in 1906 on a diploma course in electrical engineering at a technical college in Glasgow, with the hope of using this to gain entry to Glasgow University to study for a B.Sc.
		Baird had a cardboard disc, which had a ring of holes in a near spiral, rotating at eighteen turns per second, placed in front of the head of a dummy.
		John Logie Baird died on 14th June 1946 at the age of 58, leaving a widow, Margaret, whom he married in 1931, and two children, Diana and Malcolm.
	www.zephyrus.co.uk /johnlogiebaird.html (652 words)

	John Logie Baird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Baird was so far ahead of his time that, even from beyond the grave, his inventions still provide the inspiration for a new glasses-free, stereoscopic/3D imaging system, currently being developed in Glasgow by Dr Peter Waddell and a team from the University of Strathclyde, in partnership with US-based Ethereal Technologies.
		When Baird went to New York in 1930, he was welcomed by the mayor with a motor-cycle escort and a pipe band, and hailed as "the inventor of television".
		Baird was already using CRTs in 1933, despite all their drawbacks, but his focus on mechanical systems was a stroke of true genius.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/other/john_logie_baird.htm (1873 words)

	Baird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Logie Baird was born on 13 August 1888, the fourth child of Jessie and John Baird.
		Baird describes this incident in his autobiography Sermons, Soap and Television: "I had no intention of flying, but before I had time to give more than one shriek of alarm, Godfrey gave the machine one terrific push, and I was launched shrieking into the air.
		Baird had tried ultraviolet light as a means of shooting in darkness, but he found that this was damaging to the subject's eyes.
	www.geocities.com /neveyaakov/electro_science/baird.html (4741 words)

	John Baird
		Baird's early scanning discs and photoelectronics were simply too slow and insensitive to capture moving objects.
		Baird made a point to be present in London for Farnsworth's demonstration of the Image Dissector and was stunned by what he saw.
		Baird's single electronic gun CRT development work in 1945 was eventually followed in the design of the Sony Trinitron tube.
	www.thocp.net /biographies/baird_john.htm (3269 words)

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		Baird appears to have arrived in Hastings in the winter of 1922 following an unsuccessful business venture in the Caribbean making jam and a more successful enterprise selling soap which appeared to be just about to take off when he fell ill and was advised to leave London.
		Baird had already experimented with the idea of television at school and at college began to really apply himself to the possibility in earnest.
		Baird returned to Hastings in 1927 at the invitation of Victor Mills of the Hastings and District Radio Society to lecture at the White Rock Pavilion.
	www.1066.net /baird (1610 words)

	Rev. John Baird of Yetholm
		John Baird was born in Eccles Manse, Berwickshire in 1799.
		Baird was known for his interest in the historic colony of Scottish gypsies at Kirk Yetholm, because of this interest, and the concerns raised by the Quaker Society, Baird, in 1838, was asked to try out the plans which he had previously put forward to the Society for the Reformation of Gypsies, in Edinburgh.
		Baird also tried to have them stopped from camping at the roadside, and to have the enforcement of the payment of the hawker's license carried out, both to encourage staying at home; but with little obvious recorded success.
	www.bairdnet.com /borders/article.html (2349 words)

	Eye of the World: John Logie Baird, Television and Sydenham by Malcom Baird
		Baird was not part of the platform party and was relegated to the audience, to his considerable annoyance.
		Baird Television Ltd. went into liquidation, and Baird found himself to be, in his own words, "a free agent." Sydney Moseley and Donald Flamm urged Baird to move with his family to the United States where he could continue his research in better conditions, but he politely declined.
		The detractors of Baird also tend to overlook the fact that he started to switch to electronic methods as early as 1932, and his work on electronic colour TV in the 1940s was at the cutting edge, far ahead of its time.
	www.sydenham.org.uk /john_logie_baird_00.html (5883 words)

	THE BAIRD FAMILY
		John Baird, the son of John Beard and Frances Baird made a will, dated the 26th of October, 1807, in which he named as his children John, Samuel, William, James, Adam and Fannie.
		The will of John Baird was probated in 1784, he must have died about that time; the will of his wife, Frances, was probated in 1787, hence, she must have died about that time.
		John married, and of the union thus formed there were born, Fannie, (Berry) John, Samuel, William, James, and Adam.
	www.mindspring.com /~eehiv/martin/baird.family.htm (4396 words)

	Memoirs and portraits of 100 Glasgow men: 7. John Baird [ebook chapter] / James MacLehose, 1886
		Baird's careful delicacy of detail is equally conspicuous in his private buildings and warehouses.
		Baird was largely engaged not merely in designing such dwellings, but also in laying off the streets and terraces which rapidly spread out into the fields, especially westwards.
		The influence of this tendency may be seen in much of John Baird's work, and, confirmed as it was by a happy, or, from another point of view, unhappy combination of circumstances, it produced an effect upon the architecture of the city still apparent and likely to be permanent.
	gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk /mlemen/mlemen007.htm (1808 words)

	BAIRD'S MILL IN TENNESSEE
		RIDLEY BAIRD was the grandson of WILLIAM BAIRD and had obtained the land and house from the heirs of his father, ANDREW BAIRD.
		DR MINERVA BAIRD, in her writings on the BAIRD family entitled, "BAIRD-JENNINGS FAMILIES" states that WILLIAM BAIRD came from North Carolina and built the first mill, which was on his property.
		WILLIAM BAIRD, C. CLEMENT faded from the picture, and JOHN B BAIRD, though active until his death in 1894, was not again to be a member of the firm.
	www.angelfire.com /nf/baird/mill.html (3287 words)

	John Logie Baird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baird achieved this, where earlier experimenters had failed, by obtaining a better photoelectric cell and improving the signal conditioning from the photocell and the video amplifier.
		Baird gave the first public demonstration of moving silhouette images by television at Selfridges department store in London in a three-week series of demonstrations beginning March 25, 1925.
		On October 2, 1925, John Logie Baird was successful in transmitting in his laboratory the first television picture with halftones: the head of a ventriloquist's dummy, in a 30-line vertically scanned image, at 5 pictures per second.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Logie_Baird (1473 words)

	Baird family tree
		Ezekiel Baird born 1737 in NJ and is thought to be buried in an unmarked grave in Baird Cemetery in in Valle Crusis, NC.
		Baird born April 21, 1807 and died October 15, 1884 in Valle Crusis, NC and is buried in Baird Cemetery.
		John "Roby" Johnson born 1860 probably in Beaverdam twp, Watauga County, NC and died December 08, 1941 in Thelma, KY. They were married about 1890.
	www.johnwall.com /family/baird.htm (1158 words)

	Early TV Experiments by Baird
		Baird is 'now perfecting' a machine designed to transmit actual [moving] images.
		On January 23, 1926, John Logie Baird (of Scotland) gave the world's first public demonstration of a mechanical television apparatus to approximately 40 members of the Royal Institution at his laboratory on Frith Street.
		What is amazing, is that Baird continued to develop this set in private, in spite of the on-going World War at the time.
	www.tvhistory.tv /EarlyTVBaird.htm (396 words)

	baird
		Bedent Baird descended from the Immigrant John Baird of Aberdeenshire, Scotland who came to Monmouth County, New Jersey after landing at Staten Island on December 18, 1683.
		Zebulon Baird, son of William Baird and Margaret O'Riley was born in NJ in 1764.
		Israel Baird died on December 16, 1848, in Asheville at the age of 48.
	www.obcgs.com /baird.html (1149 words)

	Baird Television
		His answer was that John Logie Baird would have been thrilled by the latest technical developments including 1000-line high definition television, which he had foreseen in 1944 in his contribution to the Hankey report (see the Gallery on this website).
		It is usually accepted that John Logie Baird spent most of his time during World War II on his personally funded research on colour and stereo television.
		Baird tells his own story - from his Helensburgh boyhood to the great and precarious days when the first television pictures were transmitted, to his ultimate betrayal by the BBC - with a caustic turn of phrase and a self-deprecating wit.
	www.bairdtelevision.com (2011 words)

	Deputy Chief John Baird
		John Baird had been the Deputy Chief for the Riverside Police Department for about one year in 1912.
		Barrett pled not guilty and later testified that he had shot Baird in self-defense when he thought Baird was reaching for a gun in his coat pocket.
		Deputy Chief Baird is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Riverside.
	www.riversideca.gov /rpd/Memorial/jbaird.htm (855 words)

	Professor John Baird - UNSW@ADFA
		John Baird was born and raised in Brisbane.
		In the late 1980s, in partnership with a US wind tunnel manufacturer and a German energy company, Professor Baird was responsible for the design of the world’s largest free piston shock tunnel facility (the HEG) for the German research organisation DLR, in Goettingen.
		Professor Baird was appointed as the Rector of the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA) on 20 September 2004.
	www.unsw.adfa.edu.au /about/rectors_office/john_baird.html (397 words)

	Prime Minister of Canada: The Honourable John Baird - President of the Treasury Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Baird, a first-time Member of Parliament, was elected to the House of Commons in 2006.
		Baird was Minister of Community and Social Services, Government House Leader and Parliamentary Assistant to the Ministers of Labour, of the Management Board and of Finance.
		Baird was special assistant to Perrin Beatty, Minister of Communications, Minister of Defence and Secretary of State for External Affairs under Prime Ministers Mulroney and Campbell.
	pm.gc.ca /eng/bio.asp?id=48 (205 words)

	John Logie Baird
		John Logie Baird, though little recognized in the US, was perhaps the most remarkable inventor in the early history of television.
		For several years in the early 1930's, 30-line television broadcasts via BBC facilities were produced by Baird's company, and the quality and variety of these programs was quite high, given the limited bandwidth the BBC and the GPO allowed for them.
		The Baird company's connection with the Crystal Palace dates to July of 1933, when they took a lease on the South Tower and part of the main building.
	www.ric.edu /rpotter/baird.html (722 words)

	Beers: Baird p. 246 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		JOHN BAIRD, son of George Baird, of whom mention is made elsewhere in this work, was born in Washington, Penn., July 16, 1816, and received his education in the public schools in the vicinity of his birthplace.
		In the earlier part of his life he was engaged in the commission business, which he conducted very successfully until he was appointed agent of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. in Washington, which position he held for many years up until nearly his retirement from active business.
		Baird was married twice, first time to Harriet N. Gilfillan, daughter of Dr.
	www.chartiers.com /beers-project/articles/baird-246.html (222 words)

	John BAIRD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Baird, came from Scotland 1683 in his 18th year, Aprill 1755, about 90yrs & of an honest Caracter.
		John Baird, Jr., Feb. 6, 1747, 40yrs 10da
		John Baird born 1665 in Limberton, Aldlothian, Scotland and died April 1755 (one account states that he died at the age of 90.
	home.earthlink.net /~rick123/gene/baird/jo1bai.htm (179 words)

	JOHN ARNETT BAIRD
		JOHN TIMOTHY BAIRD (EVERETT TIMOTHY JR, EVERETT TIMOTHY SR 5, SAMUEL EDWARD4, HARDIN WILLIAM3, JOHN ARNETT2, MOSES1) b.
		MOSES BAIRD died of cholera in Cape Girardeau Co., Missouri in 1853.
		860, According to History of SE MO by Goodspeed, RUFUS BAIRD was born in Fredericktown and was a bricklayer by trade.
	www.angelfire.com /nf/baird/johnarnett.html (1900 words)

	John Baird, MP - Welcome to my online office
		John Baird, MP - Welcome to my online office
		John Baird visits Algonquin College for Skilled Trades Day
		John Baird, MP Seniors Seminar October 20, 2006
	www.johnbaird.com (36 words)

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