article_snippet.sent: The inventor called The inventor  the Baird Televisor and, although most people scoffed, The inventor  believed The inventor  had potential.
article_snippet.sent: And, notwithstanding a few improvements to the original down the years, it seems Scotsman John Logie Baird was on to something.
article_snippet.sent: Early model was manufactured in 1928 - two years after Logie Baird (pictured) first demonstrated a working TV system .
article_snippet.sent: Forerunner of the television Television was manufactured in 1928 – two years after Scotsman John Logie Baird first demonstrated a working TV system – and has the serial number 258.
article_snippet.sent: The Televisor was the first receiver sold in Britain.
article_snippet.sent: In January 1926, Scotsman John Logie Baird demonstrated a viable television system before 50 scientists using mechanical picture scanning with electronic amplification at the transmitter and receiver.
article_snippet.sent: The image could be sent by radio or over ordinary telephone lines, leading to the historic transatlantic transmissions of television from London to New York in February 1928.
article_snippet.sent: That year Scotsman John Logie Baird also achieved the first television transmission to a ship in mid-Atlantic.
highlights_snippet.sent: Forerunner of Television was manufactured in 1928 and cost around £26 .
  