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A rare and previously unseen autobiography by John Logie Baird, Hastings & St Leonards' famous resident who invented television, is now on show at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery. |
Baird's autobiography details his time and experiments in the town and also has some exclusive pictures. The autobiography joins the historic collection of letters from Baird to his financial backer, Will Day, written between April and October, 1924. These chronicle the inventor's early experiments with image transmission that he carried out at his Queens Avenue (Queens Arcade) workshop.
A George Cross also figures in the exhibition - donated to the museum by the family of the doctor who treated Baird. The doctor also saw Baird after he sustained an electric shock in his workshop so severe that the doctor claimed he was lucky to have survived.
The doctor lent the George Cross to Baird to help transmit images!
At the beginning of May, Dr Baird, John Logie's son who lives in Canada came to visit the sites associated with his father's stay in Hastings in 1923 and 24.
Dr Baird has written a biography of his father in association with historian Antony Kamm and a television documentary is being produced for the BBC to coincide with the book's publication this Summer.
The documentary on Baird is due to be broadcast in the Autumn and there will also be a major exhibition on the inventor at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh this August.
| Hastings Museum & Art Gallery is on Bohemia Road. For more information telephone 781155 |  |
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