John Logie Baird Device Recreated

University of Strathclyde students replicate original mechanical device created by TV pioneer John Logie Baird.

19:01 10 September 2018

The original mechanical television created by John Logie Baird, who studied at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College, has been recreated by a group of students from the University of Strathclyde.

 

The new model, which is set to be donated to Glasgow’s Riverside Museum, shows moving images projected on to a rotating wheel, produced using flashing LEDs and 32 small holes around the disc.

 

One of the students, Susie Little, said: “John Logie Baird’s television was very different to the televisions of today but he developed the television when there was nothing like it and that shows his genius.

 

Heather Robertson, curator of Transport and Technology Glasgow Museums said: “It’s been wonderful to work with the students at Strathclyde, first because at Glasgow Museums’ Resource Centre, we are lucky enough to have an original Televisor designed by John Logie Baird from circa 1932 and because seeing their finished recreation, made using new materials, is very exciting .

 

“It is a real bonus to have a hands-on model that school pupils can interact with during educational sessions at Riverside Museum.”