I was born on August 13th, 1888, in Helensburgh, Dunbarton, Scotland and died on June 14th, 1946, in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex,

England.I received a diploma course in electrical engineering at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College (now called Strathclyde University), and studied towards my Bachelor of Science Degree in electrical engineering from the University of Glasgow, interrupted by the outbreak of W.W.I.

system. During the 1920's, I and American Clarence W. Hansell patented the idea of using arrays of transparent rods to transmit images for television and facsimiles respectively.

My 30 line images were the first demonstrations of television by reflected light rather than back-lit silhouettes. I based my technology on Paul Nipkow's scanning disk idea and later developments in electronics.

My television pioneer created the first televised pictures of objects in motion (1924), my first televised human face (1925) and a year later I televised the first moving object image at the Royal Institution in London. My1928 trans-atlantic transmission of the image of a human face was a broadcasting milestone. Color television (1928), stereoscopic television and television by infra-red light were all demonstrated by me before 1930. I successfully lobbied for broadcast time with the British Broadcasting Company, the BBC started broadcasting television on my 30-line system in 1929. The first simultaneous sound and vision telecast was broadcast in 1930. In July 1930, my first British Television Play was transmitted, "Im the Man with the Flower in his Mouth."