The breakthrough, J.L. Baird and television (the 1920s)
Shortly after Guilieglmo Marconi's death in 1937, Professor Sir Ambrose Fleming, who had been a consultant for Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, wrote an appreciation of him. Fleming's eulogy could also have been applied almost word for word to Baird. The two inventors had much in common. Baird's plans for television were ambitious and extensive as were those of Marconi for marine wireless communications. Both inventors commenced their experiments in private houses and, initially, neither Baird nor Marconi had any substantially novel ideas to put forward for the solution of their problems. Moreover, after their early successes, both inventors, with their associates, endeavoured to establish a vigorous policy of commercial expansion. Companies were formed in the UK and overseas, and the two inventors encounted some criticism about their business dealings. Furthermore, both Marconi and Baird displayed, during the formative periods of their organisa tions, blind spots to progress.
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