Valued exposure: Face

Faces transmitted by first TV technology in 1926

John Logie Baird's original television image of a moving face as transmitted at his public demonstration in London on 27 January 1926. Three years later, his mechanically-scanned system was adopted by the BBC, paving the way for the first television services.

Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images


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