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Tadeusz Baird

Polish composer (1928–1981)

Tadeusz Baird (26 July 1928 – 2 September 1981) was a Polish composer.

Biography

Baird was born in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, in Poland. His father Edward was Polish, while his mother Maria (née Popov) was Russian. In 1944 at the age of 16 he was deported to Germany as a forced labourer, and after a failed escape attempt was imprisoned in a concentration camp. After liberation by the Americans he spent six months recovering at the military hospital in Zweckel before returning to Poland.[1] Between 1947 and 1951 Baird studied composition and musicology in Warsaw under Piotr Rytek and Kazimierz Sikorski, and piano with Tadeusz Wituski.[2] In 1949 he founded Group 49 along with Kazimierz Serocki and Jan Krenz. The aim of Group 49 was to write communicative and expressive music according to socialist realism, the dominant ideology in the Eastern Bloc at the time.

After Stalin's death in 1953 he increasingly turned to serialism.[3] In 1956, along with Kazimierz Serocki, he founded the

John Logie Baird (1888 - 1946)

John Logie Baird  ©Baird was a Scottish engineer, most famous for being the first person to demonstrate a working television.

John Logie Baird was born on 14 August 1888 in Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland, the son of a clergyman. Dogged by ill health for most of his life, he nonetheless showed early signs of ingenuity, rigging up a telephone exchange to connect his bedroom to those of his friends across the street. His studies at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College were interrupted by the outbreak of World War One. Rejected as unfit for the forces, he served as superintendent engineer of the Clyde Valley Electrical Power Company. When the war ended he set himself up in business, with mixed results.

Baird then moved to the south coast of England and applied himself to creating a television, a dream of many scientists for decades. His first crude apparatus was made of odds and ends, but by 1924 he managed to transmit a flickering image across a few feet. On 26 January 1926 he gave the world's first demonstration of tr

John Logie Baird

Scottish inventor, known for first demonstrating television (1888–1946)

John Logie Baird

FRSE

Baird in 1917

Born(1888-08-13)13 August 1888

Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, Scotland

Died14 June 1946(1946-06-14) (aged 57)

Bexhill, Sussex, England

Resting placeBaird family grave in Helensburgh Cemetery
EducationLarchfield Academy, Helensburgh
Alma mater
Occupations
Organizations
  • Consulting technical adviser, Cable & Wireless Ltd (from 1941)
  • Director, John Logie Baird Ltd
  • Director, Capital and Provincial Cinemas Ltd
Known forThe world's first mechanical television system, including the first mechanical colour television
Spouse

Margaret Albu

(m. 1931)​
Children2
Awards

John Logie BairdFRSE (;[1] 13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first mechanical television system on 26 January 1926.[2][3][4] He went on

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