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jan 26, 1926 - First mechanical television is created

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john Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor, invented the first mechanical television at the age of 38. Mechanical televisions are not like modern televisions, the had a hole to look through facing a disc that would spin, on the disc were images that when spun fast enough worked like stop motion.

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jan 26, 1926
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~ 100 years ago