The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and ...

January 26th marked 100 years since the first public demonstration of a technology that we now know as television. Tatenda finds out more about the history of television and how it changed the world.

Television has a long history, stretching all the way back to the 1960s, of being a bad media object. One key moment in that history is in 1961 when Newton Minow, the head of the FCC at the time, said ...

In Soho, London, 100 years ago, John Logie Baird’s mechanical television system broadcast recognisable human faces for the ...