The Man Who Made the Shadows Dance

<p><strong>Before screens were everywhere there was one man whose obsessive quest gave humanity the gift of sight-by wireless.</strong></p><p>John Logie Baird was an unlikely hero: a sickly penniless Scottish engineer whose eccentric early career involved failures from diamond-making machines to foot-warming socks. Yet in a dimly lit London lab he perfected the impossible transmitting the world's first true television picture using nothing more than cardboard discs and relentless ingenuity.</p><p>This is the dramatic story of the birth of the moving image.</p><p>It chronicles Baird's spectacular triumphs-the world's first public TV service transatlantic broadcasts and early colour television-set against a backdrop of fierce corporate warfare and his tragic losing battle against the powerful electronic technologies that would ultimately eclipse his mechanical genius.</p><p><strong>He won the race to invent television. Why did history forget him?</strong> Approx.172 pages 35100 word count</p>