John Logie Baird (Pic - Helensburgh Heritage)
THE 90th anniversary of the world's first colour television transmission by Helensburgh's John Logie Baird has been marked in the Scottish Parliament.
Kenneth Gibson, SNP MSP for Cunninghame North, lodged a members' motion at Holyrood to mark Baird's landmark achievement, conducted on July 3, 1928.
Baird's transmission of the world's first colour TV pictures came two years after he successfully transmitted a television picture using a greyscale image.
Mr Gibson's motion, which "hopes that people remember John Logie Baird’s contributions to modern life and take pride in the history of Scottish invention and discovery", has been supported by 18 MSPs from the SNP, Labour and the Conservatives.
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