Did you know?: John Logie Baird was interested in the supernatural. At a séance the ghost of American inventor Thomas Edison apparently communicated to Baird using Morse code.

John Logie Baird (1888-1946)

Reading list

Further reading about John Logie Baird:

'John Logie Baird: a life', by Antony Kamm and Malcolm Baird (Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland Publishing, 2002).
'Sermons, Soap and Television: Autobiographical Notes', by John Logie Baird (London: Royal Television Society, 1988).
'Television and me: the memoirs of John Logie Baird', edited by Malcolm Baird (Edinburgh: Mercat, 2004).
'Television Baird – the story of the man who invented television', by Margaret Baird (Cape Town: Haum, 1973).
'The Secret Life of John Logie Baird', by Tom McArthur and Peter Waddell (London: Century Hutchinson, 1986).
'Vision Warrior', by Tom McArthur and Peter Waddell (Kirkwall, Orkney, Orkney Press, 1990).
'John Logie Baird, television pioneer', by Russell Burns (Stevenage, Herts., Institution of Electrical Engineers, 2000).
'Restoring Baird’s image', by Donald F McLean (Stevenage, Herts., Institution of Electrical Engineers, 2000)
'Images Across space', by Douglas Brown (Middlesex University Technical Resources, 2009).