{"id":24106,"date":"2022-09-18T01:03:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T05:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=24106"},"modified":"2022-09-17T23:01:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T03:01:17","slug":"face-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/face-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"face of the future"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John Baird, 1926 by an unknown press photographer in England<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Today, with smartphones de rigueur, \u00a0<\/em>we take television and videos for granted. It wasn’t always so. In 1926, the Scottish inventor, John Baird<\/a> held a demonstration for the media in London, England.<\/p>\n

Baird demonstrated, “the first workable system of televisually transmitting an image from \u00a0one place to another<\/em>“. The face you see is that of John Baird. Baird appears to be using a Nipkow disk<\/a> to scan an image for transmission.<\/p>\n

This portrait and short story are one of three mentioned in\u00a0a brief video<\/a> by the Morgan Library and Museum in New Zealand, narrated by Joel Smith. The third portrait, which is of Gene Krupa, is the subject of yesterday’s post.<\/p>\n

And as stated, my very good friend George Dunbar came through with the New Zealand link shown above. As a young man, I had an older friend who partnered with his brother-in-law to do television repairs. It was he who introduced me to the strange Nipkow disk and the issues early television faced.<\/p>\n

While the PHSC is primarily an historical society of ‘still’ photography, we all seem to have a movie camera kicking around and some interest in technology, be it stills, movies, television, videos, or smartphones …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. Today, with smartphones de rigueur, \u00a0we take television and videos for granted. It wasn’t always so. In 1926, the Scottish inventor, John Baird held a demonstration for the media in London, England. Baird demonstrated, “the first workable system of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[4182,1312,3089,297,687],"class_list":["post-24106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-baird","tag-movies","tag-stills","tag-tv","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24110,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24106\/revisions\/24110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}