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January 27 in Scottish History

On this day in 1926 the first public demonstration of TV was made by John Logie Baird. In 1927 his television was demonstrated over 438 miles of telephone line between London and Glasgow, and he formed the Baird Television Development Company, Ltd. In 1928 Baird achieved the first transatlantic television transmission between London and New York, and the first transmission to a ship in the mid-Atlantic. He also gave the first demonstration of both colour and stereoscopic television.

On January 27 1783 the Glasgow Herald newspaper was first published. It is the longest continuously published daily newspaper in Britain. It began its life as the 'Glasgow Advertiser' in January 1783, changing briefly to the 'Herald and Advertiser and Commercial Chronicle' in 1803, before becoming the 'Glasgow Herald' on 26th August 1804.