[Tig] mistake in wikipedia?

[Rob Lingelbach]

On Sat, July 14, 2007 1:00 pm, Dick Hobbs wrote:
> Peter Swinson will give us the
> detail of the history, no doubt, but it is a weekend so he will be on
> his boat somewhere on the waterways of eastern England.

And peering through the eyepiece of his Meade LX-10 while SWLing on his
Yaesu FRG7700.  (we have very small subgroups of astronomers/ham radio
operators on the TIG)

> The first person to demonstrate television was John Logie Baird, a
> rather eccentric Scottish inventor working in London.

Peter had a long article on this in the wiki a couple of years ago that was lost
in a system crash, and has been partly restored by Dave Tosh at
http://tig.colorist.org/wiki3/index.php/BairdSpotlightScanner

Rob
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Rob Lingelbach
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