An epoch in television transmission

Photopress photograph titled 'An epoch in television transmission'. Caption on back reads: The first "sight and sound" broadcast was transmitted from the BBC twin stations at Brookman's Park and Long Acre this morning, It will be the first public test of television that has been carried out in this country, when speakers may be seen as well as heard. Photo shows - Lord Ampthill and Mr Baird taken at the Baird Studio, Long Acre, witnessing the first television set.

The Daily Herald was a British national newspaper published between 1912 and 1964, and became the top-selling newspaper in the world, with a monthly circulation of more than 2 million. Throughout its 50 years of publication, the newspaper archived 3.5 million photographs, contact sheets and glass negatives, creating a rich visual collection of the first half of the 20th century.

This photo shows a posed group looking at a 'televisor', an early television receiver designed by John Logie Baird.