Date and the time I began : Wednesday, 17 March 2021 07.00 am
Date and the time I finished : Wednesday, 17 March 2021 07.45 am
Title : Learn English Through Story ★ Subtitles: John Logie Baird (Level 3 )
Level : Level 3_B1+ Intermediate
3. Summary :
John Logie Baird, born in Helensburgh, Scotland, is considered to be one of the inventors of the mechanical television known as the "televisor", the principle of which works like a radio.A television that has a built-in rotating mechanism that can produce video to accompany the sound.
Baird is an engineer from Scotland. He is the youngest of his four siblings. As a boy, his childhood often experimented with electronic devices.Baird studied as an engineering student at the University of Glasgow from 1914 to 1915, until he was finally dismissed from his studies. He also tried to voluntarily enroll in the national service in 1915, but was refused due to health reasons. Until finally Baird made a mechanical television whose way it worked was to scan an image and produce a video signal through a rotating, perforated disc, or rotating mirror. The Scottish pioneer helped change the world by explaining how television systems work and the future benefits of television. It was then that people began to react to the creation of John Logie Baird. It was the first public demonstration of live television creating images using electronic scanning.
By 1924, Baird managed to transmit flickering images at a distance of 10 feet and the following year had a breakthrough when he managed to capture TV images with light and shadow. Until then, he continued to dominate TV innovation for three decades after 1926 for TV displays. Baird continued to develop mechanical TV and in 1927 he began sending content on the 438 mile long telephone line between London and Glasgow.
In 1928, Baird returned to the University of Glasgow, giving a public lecture on 'Television' to engineering students. During a public lecture, he explained how the television process worked, overcoming difficulties to exploiting television's wireless systems and expressed confidence that television would soon have commercial importance.
Furthermore, Baird developed color TV and brought out the first in the world which then mass-produced television in 1929. From then until 1937 the radio television station in Great Britain, namely the BBC, used the Baird company for its television broadcasts.
Baird went on to organize the Television Development Company, which produced the first transatlantic broadcast and the first live broadcast from Epsom Derby. Until finally Baird died on June 14, 1946 in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, after suffering a stroke at the age of 58 years.
What I learned?
Enthusiastic, At the age of 35, Baird is living in poverty. Despite this, Baird is always full of enthusiasm and never gives up when he gets into trouble. In order to meet his daily needs, he does various jobs. Starting from a shoe salesman to a razor blade salesman he has worked with.
What difficulties that I face while listening to the recording ?
I have a little bit problem with these videos. The words they used sometimes do not understand, but is okay.