The first demonstration of television

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a huge volume of research was undertaken by engineers and scientists of many nationalities into the problem of `seeing by electricity¿. John Logie Baird had little money, no laboratory facilities for construction or repair, no access to specialist expertise and no experience of r. & d. work in electrical engineering. He carried out his experiments in private lodgings. Yet he won the race to be first to demonstrate a practical t.v. system