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The television pioneer created the first televised pictures of objects in motion (1924), the first televised human face (1925) and a year later he televised the first moving object image at the Royal Institution in London.
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His 1928 trans-atlantic transmission of the image of a human face was a broadcasting milestone.
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Color television (1928), stereoscopic television and television by infra-red light were all demonstrated by Baird before 1930.
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He successfully lobbied for broadcast time with the British Broadcasting Company, the BBC started broadcasting television on the Baird 30-line system in 1929.
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The first simultaneous sound and vision telecast was broadcast in 1930.
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In July 1930, the first British Television Play was transmitted, "The Man with the Flower in his Mouth."
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In 1936, the British Broadcasting Corporation adopted television service using the electronic television technology of Marconi-EMI (the world's first regular high resolution service - 405 lines per picture), it was that technology that won out over Baird's system.
