The Almanac

January 26

One thing science and human progress accomplished on this date.

  1. 1926

    Television is demonstrated for the first time

    In a small London laboratory, John Logie Baird showed members of the Royal Institution the first live television pictures of recognizable human faces. The flickering images were the humble start of a technology that would reach almost every home.

    Source: Wikipedia

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