Early TV image showing a face. This image was made on a television designed by John Logie Baird, in 1926. Baird made mechanical televisions, which pro

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Early TV image showing a face. This image was made on a television designed by John Logie Baird, in 1926. Baird made mechanical televisions, which produced a picture using a spinning Nipkow disc. Models produced at around the same time by inventors such as Farnsworth used the now- universal electron beam scanning.

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