Trinidad and Tobago History Month....The Ghost lights in the house...How the inventor of Television invented television in Trinidad....And the big british cover up...please share this if interested... John Logie Baird is a famed scottish scientist credited for inventing Television in the 1920s...However he didnt invent the television in britiain...He actually invented it in Trinidad... In 1919..Baird tired of living in the climate of Britain decided to go to the west indies for a better climate..once there he decided to open a jam factory after discovering Trinidad was rich in citrus fruits...A venture that ultimately failed as he found that that the tropical climate of Trinidad wasnt good for him either.... During the 14 months in Trinidad however he started his experiments of transmitting an image from one room to another in what was to be the first early Television transmission...something that un nerved the residents of Santa Cruz where the experiments were taking place as they thought the strange lights were ghosts or jack o lanterns..(a trini supernatural character) mainly because Baird was doing the experiments at night... However official history claims he started it in 1920 and all he went to do in Trinidad was to open a jam factory. Despite the evidence of the contrary from the eye witnesses who were there at the time and from the man himself... The first quote... Evidence of early television experiments in Trinidad come from eye-witness accounts from people who saw flashes of light proceeding from the bungalow he rented. Mr Jimmy Bain, chairman of Trinidad & Tobago Television, writes, from my personal knowledge, Mr Baird did his experiments in Trinidad when I was a boy. He used to make guava jelly to sell and support himself while here and my father used to assist in selling his jellies. I remember my father mentioning the experiments he was doing here, although I would only have been ten years old at the time. My father arranged for Mr Baird to live in the overseers house on the cocoa plantation of Mr Albert Stollmeyer in Santa Cruz and it is here he conducted his experiments. At that stage he was sending hazy pictures between two houses - no sound, of course. But the one that cannot be refuted is words from the man himself... From an excerpt in the Sunday Chronicle in 1936, talking about his voyage to Trinidad... I packed two large trunks with calico and a third trunk with books on sound, light, heat, electricity and the latest discoveries that pointed in the direction of my own goal, television. There would be plenty of time to read in the tropics. This is a strong indication that Baird had every intention to carry on his experiments in Trinidad or he would not bother to bring the material needed for the experiment. The jam factory was an after thought and more likely a way to fund his experiments while living in Trinidad and the estate of the Stollmeyers... The fact he returned to britain in 1920 and successfully created the working model also indicates that the experiment in Trinidad was a success and he was able to finalize it to the working model that became television in 1926. But of course we cannot credit one of the most important inventions of the twentieth century having had its first transmission and experiment in Trinidad..thats just not british..dear chap... details trinidadexpress/news/Santa_Cruz__home_of_the_first_TV_-149447405.html core evidence from his daughter.. strath.ac.uk/alumni/youralumnicommunity/events/archiveevents/jlb/
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 14:17:40 +0000
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