October 2, 1925
John Logie Baird obtains his first “tones and detail” television picture – an image of “Stooky Bill”, a ventriloquist’s dummy. That same day, Baird pays 24-year-old office boy William Taynton 2 shillings and sixpence to sit for the camera, sweating under the blazing lights for hours, in order to be the first individual to appear live on “true” television.
