Table of Contents

Helensburgh Days 1888-1919Entrepreneur with Problems: Trinidad and London 1919-1923The Beginning of Television: Hastings and Other Places 1923-1924Serendipity in Soho 1924-1925Vision on 1926Hands across the Sea 1927-1928Sound and Vision 1929-1930Meeting Difficulties, January to October 1931New York, and Marriage 1931-1932Baird and his Company, October 1931-May 1932Baird and the BBC, March 1932-June 1933Crescent Wood Road 1933The Baird Company 1933-1939Crescent Wood Road 1933-1939Carrying on: Bude and London 1939-1942The End of the road: Bude, London, and Bexhill 1943-1946Epilogue 1946-2002Appendix: John Logie Baird and the SupernaturalPostscript: The Manuscripts of Sermons, Soap and Television: A Brief AccountReference NotesIndex

About the Author

Antony Kamm is a writer and former Lecturer in Publishing Studies.Dr Malcolm Baird, son of John Logie Baird, is a former chairman of the Chemical Engineering department, McMaster University, Ontario.

Reviews

'In the future when people wish to look up the facts of his life and achievements I believe it will be to this remarkable book that they turn first.' Michael Bennett-Levy, BVWS Bulletin'Kamm and Baird - the latter the inventor's son - tell their tale dispassionately, and amidst their careful coverage of the complex technological and business history of Baird and television manage to paint a strikingly clear portrait of the inventor who started it all.'Russell A Potter, The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television