[NJARC] History Channel does J. L. Baird

[John Dilks K2TQN]

I check my TV-Guide listing and they have a submarine story tonight.  I 
also checked the History Channel site, and they said the same.

Anybody know anything different?

73, John Dilks, k2TQN

>     Here's the teaser for The History Channel's "Man, Moment, Machine,"
>10:00 p.m./9c Tuesday, August 9".
>
>     "If Johannes Gutenberg hadn't invented movable type in the 1440's,
>you might not be reading this ad.---If John Logie Baird hadn't invented
>a way to televise moving pictures in the 1920's, you might not be able
>to see this show.
>     "MAN, MOMENT, MACHINE
>The right people, the right time, with the right technology.  Watch what
>happens when they all come together."
>
>     Actually, I would suggest that the development of Nipkow and
>electromechanical television had almost no bearing on the development of
>the electronic systems we watch today, except to fill in during the
>early 1930s for all-electronic components not yet reduced to practice.
>But if the show moves an audience to respect the resourcefulness and
>determination of inventors, that's all to the good.
>
>Alex