United KingdomHistory 140 · History
The Scottish engineer John Logie Baird is best known for his work on which invention?
- aThe telephone
- bThe radio
- cThe televisionCorrect answer
- dThe electric light bulb
Why?
John Logie Baird developed television and gave the first public demonstration of it in the 1920s. The telephone is linked with Alexander Graham Bell, another Scottish-born inventor.
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