Baird, John Logie - Patent - Television
£500
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Auction: 7 September 2011 at 12:00 BST
Description
Patent specification - A system of transmitting views portraits and scenes by telegraphy or wireless telegraphy filed by John Logie Baird and WIlfred Ernest Lytton Day. London: July 1923 [complete accepted Oct. 1924], 8vo, text page and plan, disbound, stamp of Manchester Patents Dept to upper leaf
Footnote
Note: A copy of Baird's first patent filed in 1923 [No. 222,604]. It describes a method of displaying a televised image using a screen of small lamps.