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Baird Television Development Company, of Wembley.

1927 The Baird Television Development Company was established to acquire the rights to John Logie Baird's television system from Television Ltd of Motorgraph House. Had found a suitable factory at Long Acre, London^[1].

1928 made the first transatlantic television transmission, from London to Hartsdale, New York, and the first television programme for the BBC.

1928 Baird International Television Ltd was incorporated as a public company that would have a controlling interest in the Development Company^[2] including a range of other inventions including Noctovision (infra-red vision), Phonovision on gramophone records, facsimile telegraphy.

From 1929 to 1932, the BBC transmitters were used to broadcast television programmes using the 30-line Baird system

From 1932 to 1935, the BBC also produced the programmes in their own studio at 16 Portland Place.

1936 the BBC began transmitting Baird 240-line transmissions alternated with the Marconi-EMI Television Co's electronic scanning system which had recently been improved to 405 lines. The Baird system at the time involved an intermediate film process, where footage was shot on cine film which was rapidly developed and scanned.

The company had access to Philo T. Farnsworth's electronic "Image Dissector" camera via a patent-sharing agreement. However, the Image Dissector camera was found to be lacking in light sensitivity, requiring excessive levels of illumination. Baird used the Farnsworth tubes instead to scan cine film, in which capacity they proved serviceable through prone to dropouts and other problems. Farnsworth himself came to London to Baird's Crystal Palace laboratories in 1936 but was unable to fully solve the problem; the fire that burned the Palace to the ground later that year further hampered the Baird company's ability to compete.

1938 Cooperation with Gaumont-British to equip large theatres and cinemas^[4].

1939 9th OGM. Announced that from June they will undertake all manufacturing themselves and cease working with Bush Radio. J. L. Baird was then President of the company. ^[5]

1948 Scophony Ltd acquired John Logie Baird Ltd; new factory at Wells and expansion of television production at the Wembley factory^[7].

1949 Scophony Ltd became Scophony-Baird Ltd, of Lancelot Road, Wembley, Middlesex.

1952 In September, Scophony-Baird Ltd changed its name to Baird Television Ltd.

1954 Acquired Hartley Electromotives Ltd; change of name to Hartley Baird^[9].

1960 Radio Rentals acquired the Baird Company. Radio Rentals changed the name of its manufacturing subsidiary in Bradford, Mains Radio Gramophone, to Baird Television, to emphasise its position in the manufacturing of televisions.^[12].

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 * 1928 made the first transatlantic television transmission, from London to Hartsdale, New York, and the first television programme for the [[BBC]].
-* From 1929 to 1932, the BBC transmitters were used to broadcast television programmes using the 30-line Baird system, a
+* 1928 Baird International Television Ltd was incorporated as a public company that would have a controlling interest in the Development Company<ref>The Times, 25 June 1928</ref> including a range of other inventions including ''Noctovision'' (infra-red vision), ''Phonovision'' on gramophone records, facsimile telegraphy.
+* From 1929 to 1932, the BBC transmitters were used to broadcast television programmes using the 30-line Baird system
 * From 1932 to 1935, the BBC also produced the programmes in their own studio at 16 Portland Place.