Acc.12724 October 2007 Inventory Acc.12724 John Logie Baird National Library of Scotland Manuscripts Division George IV Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1EW Tel: 0131-466 2812 Fax: 0131-466 2811 E-mail: [email protected] © Trustees of the National Library of Scotland Papers, mainly photocopies, collected by Antony Kamm and Malcolm Baird for research for their biography John Logie Baird; a life, NMS Publishing Ltd, 2002 0.5m Presented, 2007 1. Articles, reports, etc. relating to JLB’s work, 1924-1934 2. Articles, reports, etc. relating to JLB’s work, 1935-2001, n.d. 3-13. Personal documents and personalities 14-15. JLB business and technical 16. Patents lodged by JLB or relating to his work 17-24 BBC and related documentation 25. Documents relating to JLB in Hastings 1923-1924 26. Hastings letters 27. Falkirk connection 28. Press cuttings 29. Photographs 30-32. CD/Video 33-36. Cassette tapes 37. Antony Kamm and Malcolm Baird, John Logie Baird; a life, NMS Publishing Ltd, 2002 1. Articles, reports, etc. relating to JLB’s work, 1924-1934 Discussion following the reading of A A Campbell Swinton’s paper to the Radio Society of Great Britain, “The Possibilities of Television with Wire and Wireless”, 26 March 1924 F H Robinson, “The Radio Kinema”, Kinematograph Weekly, 3 April 1924 F H Robinson, “Radio Television”, Broadcaster and Wireless Retailer, April 1924 J L Baird, “An Account of Some Experiments in Television”, Wireless World and Radio Review, 7 May 1924 (plus further copy annotated by Ray Herbert) “Television: the problem of seeing at a distance -- how near is it?”, Sphere, 10 May 1924 E G Stewart, “Television”, report for the Gas, Light, and Coke Company on a private visit to JLB’s laboratory, 1926 J L Baird, “Television”, Experimental Wireless & the Wireless Engineer, December 1926 (extract annotated by Ray Herbert) J L Baird, “Television”, Journal of Scientific Instruments, vol. 38 April 1927, lecture delivered 6 January 1927 Nature, 15 January 1927, editorial on preceding; 29 January 1927, reply by JLB, and editor’s comment “Seeing Across the Atlantic”, supplement to Television, March 1928 “Transatlantic Television” and “Television in mid-Atlantic”, Television, April 1928 W C Fox, “A Love of Scientific Adventure: and where it leads”, Television, April 1928 Television Society, “Report of First General Meeting”, Television, June 1928 “The Baird Television System in America”, Television, July 1928 Dr J A Fleming, “Daylight Television -- a remarkable advance” and “The Inventor of the ‘Fleming Valve’ visits the now World-Famous Baird Laboratory”, Television, July 1928 “Daylight Television: a new Baird system”, Popular Wireless, 4 August 1928 Professor Cheshire, “Stereoscopic Vision”, Television, September 1928 Denison A Verne, “The Stereoscopic Televisor”, Television, September 1928 Lt-Col. Chetwode Crawley, “Navigation by Invisible Rays”, Television, October 1928 Noel Swanne, “This Television”, Television, November 1928 “Baird Television As We Last Saw It: some remarkable developments”, Amateur Wireless, 22 December 1928 (annotated by Ray Herbert) Sydney A Moseley, “At Last!”, Television, March 1929 Sydney A Moseley, “The First Television Broadcast”, Television, May 1929 Cecil Malone MP, “The Future Developments of Television”, Television, May 1929 “Engineer”, “Television Proves Itself: news of the Post Office demonstration”, Television, May 1929 “Sydney A Moseley Writes from Berlin”, Television, June 1929 “Sydney A Moseley Writes from Berlin”, Television, July 1929 Sydney A Moseley, “And the Hidden Hand”, Television, August 1929 “An ‘Eye’ for Ships: remarkable new invention renders fog transparent”, Television, September 1929 Sydney A Moseley, “The New Offer to Baird”, Television, September 1929 “Talking Films by Television”, Television, September 1929 Sydney A Moseley, “The Future of Television”, Television, October 1929 “Sydney A Moseley Replies to Captain Eckersley”, Television, December 1929 “Sydney A Moseley on a New Richmond”, Television, December 1929 Sydney A Moseley, “More Facilities”, Television, January 1930 Sir Ambrose Fleming, “Television: present and future”, lecture at Annual Exhibition of Apparatus by Physical and Optical Societies of London, Imperial College of Science 9 January 1930, Television, February 1930 Sydney A. Moseley, “Is Television in Danger?”, Television, February 1930 “Those Ghost Images”, Television, November 1930 Harold Bradly, “Studio Topics” (Television Screen News), Television, November 1930 Professor E V Appleton, “The Timing of Wireless Echoes: the use of television and picture transmission”, Wireless World, 14 January 1931 (annotated by Dr P Waddell) Sydney A Moseley, “One More Epoch”, Television, January 1931 “Remarkable Results in Latest Competition”, Television, January 1931 Sydney A Moseley, “What is America’s Game?”, Television, March 1931 “First Newspaper Interview by Television: Mrs Snowden, at Home, Seen and Heard in the ‘Daily Herald’ Editor’s Room”, Television, June 1931 (reprinted from Daily Herald, 14 May 1931) “Studio Topics”, Television, June 1931 Sydney A Moseley, “Televising the Derby”, Television, July 1931 “Television on an Express Train”, Television, March 1932 “Derby Thrills by Television: an historic transmission”, Television, June 1932 “The BBC ‘First Night’”, Television, September 1932 “‘News’ by Television: the Baird process”, Television, October 1932 Archibald Church, “Recent Developments in Television”, paper read at British Association meeting, Nature, 30 September 1933 Royal Society of Arts, discussion following lecture by J C Wilson on colour television, JLB in the chair, 29 June 1934 2. Articles, reports, etc. relating to JLB’s work, 1935-2001, n.d. The Television Committee, “Report”, January 1935 Capt. A G D West, “A Practical Outline of Television”, Television and Short-Wave World, August 1935 “Talks with Great Scots, I -- J L Baird”, Scotland, Summer 1936 “Television”, from A Guide to Amateur Radio, 1936 Sarnoff, David, “Television: comparative status in England and the USA”, Wireless World, 29 October 1937 Wireless World 29 October and 11 November 1937, correspondence “Television in Colour”, Electronics and Television and Short-Wave World, April 1947 “Radar Pre-History”, Wireless World December 1945 J D Percy, “The Founding of British Television”, Television Society Memorial Paper, March 1950 P P Eckersley, “The Achievement and Failure of John Logie Baird”, Electronics and Power, April 1962 (plus letter from P V Reveley in September issue) Letters to the Editor, Electronics and Power, December 1975, February and April 1976 Maurice Exwood, “John Logie Baird: 50 Years of Television”, IERE History of Television Monograph, 1976 P Waddell, W V Smith, and J Sanderson, “The Activities of the Pioneer of Television between 1925 and 1928”, Wireless World, January 1976 Maurice Exwood, “The Births of Television”, Radio and Electronic Engineer, December 1976, annotated by Ray Herbert Donald Flamm, “Baird in America: what was and what might have been”, Television, March/April 1981 Richard B Head, letter (September 1981) and report of demonstration by JLB of stereoscopic television in December 1941 Ray Herbert, “Baird Television Newsletter”, August 1984 Donald Flamm, “Baird’s Proper Place in Television History”, address at Council and Fellows Dinner, Arts Club, 11 September 1984 Ray Herbert, “Historic Baird TV Transmissions from Aircraft”, Television, March/April 1987 A E Sayers, “To Whom It May Concern” (1989), reminiscence of the Baird company pre-war and post-war T H Bridgewater, “Just a Few Lines: the birth and infant years of BBC Television”, supplement to the Bulletin of the British Vintage Wireless Society, 1992 Herbert, Ray, “People of the Palace -- John Logie Baird”, Crystal Palace Matters, Issue 6, Winter 1994 (annotated by the author) Michael Buckland, “Emanuel Goldberg, Television & Zeiss Ikon”, from Zeiss Ikon and Television: Fernseh, 1995 Adrian R Hills, “Eye of the World: John Logie Baird and Television”, Kinema, Spring 1996 Ray Herbert, “G2TV: the first television transmitting station”, for Radio Society of Great Britain, 13 May 1996 Herbert, Ray, “Radio Amateurs and Early Television”, Radio Communication, October 1996 Ray Herbert, “The Viseotelephone”, British Vintage Wireless Society Bulletin, vol. 22, no 1, 1997 Andrew Emmerson, “Rewriting History”, Electronics World, November 1998 Professor R W Burns, “Restoring Baird’s Image”, IEE History of Technology Meeting Report, October 1999 Ray Herbert, “Baird Television Newsletter”, December 1999 Ray Herbert, “Baird Television Newsletter”, December 2000 Richard B Head, “The Power Station Affair”, handwritten note 2001 Ray Herbert, “75 Years of Television”, 3 February 2001 Ray Herbert, “Baird Television Newsletter”, October 2001 Ray Herbert, “John Logie Baird Limited”, nd Adrian Hills, “The Baird Holding and Development Trust”, nd 3-13. Personal documents and personalities 3. JLB’s family Family portraits (3 sheets) Correspondence with Paul Singleton 2001, occupant of The Lodge (15 sheets) Documents relating to his mother’s death (6 sheets) Extracts from diaries of Annie Baird and press cutting (6 sheets) 4. JLB Documents relating to his health problems (3 sheets) College writings (5 sheets) Documents relating to his situation in WWI (1 sheet) “Alice, where art Thou”, words and music (1 sheet) Driving licence (1919--1920) and history of his motorcycle (2 sheets) Correspondence and documentation relating to Tunbridge Wells (9 sheets) Bank and related records 1928--1944 (12 sheets), with note by MHIB (1 sheet)