Monthly Archives: January 2015

Just before you crest the final hill on the road to Hastings, you pass a small sign welcoming you to the ‘Birthplace of Television.’  Considering the almost inestimable power, influence and consequences of the medium, the discreet sign seems somehow inadequate to commemorate such a momentous legacy. Does Hastings deserve the accolade?   In the technical sense, hedged with caveats and restrictions from the pedantic, but probably yes.  It was there, in 1924, that John Logie Baird cobbled together a Heath Robinson assembly of biscuit tins and string, and first transmitted a crude, very low resolution blurry shadow, but still visibly moving image from one machine to another.