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    Today's Google Doodle

    Today Google has honored John Logie Baird with a doodle. for those that did not know he is the real inventor of television.

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    Good catch , I noticed that as well . Although , I'm sure Mr. Baird would be a bit surprised by some of today's programming that airs on his invention .
    Mike Montgomery
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    Baird's mechanical TV system is not the system in use today, However he was the first to make any TV work,
    Baird also did the first transatlantic television,
    The First Video recording,
    The First electronic Colour Cathode ray tube, as used until very recently,
    He was also involved with Fibre optics,
    RDF (Radio Direction Finder),
    Radar,
    and infra red imaging.
    "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give"
    Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

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