Identify man and object labeled A.Hint: Few correct responses so far. The man is shown with the invention he is famous for. The object labeled A is a famous dummy which was used in place of an actual human being because the machine got too hot for any human subject to be used.
Answer: This is John Logie Baird posing with his first television. The incandescent bulbs used made it too hot for any human being to be used as a test subject. Instead, Baird used a ventriloquist's dummy named Stookie bill as the test subject. The first images of Stookie bill (there are no pictures from Baird's experiments. These images are recreated now by rebuilding Baird's setup) look rather like the guy from the Saw movies. Karthik, Saswata Das, Ajinkya, Jaggi, Amresh and Venkatakrishnan got it. Well done all.
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“Stookie Bill,” a ventriloquist’s dummy that was scanned by the spinning Nipkow disk in order to produce a picture signal.
John Logie Baird and Television
J L Baird and the first television apparatus. Not sure what A is (perhaps denotes the viewers POV)
Oh ok, its the first "real" image produced by his television.
http://www.etsu.edu/cas/COMM/broadcasting/broadcastingweb/tvhistory/dvb_tv-history.htm
John Logie Baird and Stokie Bill
John Logie Baird with his televisor invention (The first TV)
J.L.Baird and the TV?
Venkatakrishnan
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