Photograph entitled 'Baird with his very crude transmitter equipment'

Photograph with caption 'Baird with his very crude transmitter equipment in 1925'. From a collection of photographs illustrating the early experimental television work of John Logie Baird, 1924-1938.

In 1926 John Logie Baird invited an audience to his first demonstration of television. His curious machine was made of bits of a recycled hat box and a bicycle lamp. It astonished the assembled crowd as they watched moving images being transmitted from one room to another. A few years later, Baird worked with the BBC on its first television broadcasts.