'A fabulous distillation of all the joy and bitterness, hurt and humour of an extraordinary man… I doubt there will be a better written, more interesting or important book published in Scotland this year' - Daily Mail (2004)'Funds were going down, the situation was becoming desperate and we were down to our last £30 when at last, one Friday in the first week of October 1925, everything functioned properly. The image of the dummy's head formed itself on...

John Logie examines the rhetoric of the ongoing debate over peer-to-peer technologies, in particular Napster and its successors. The Grokster case, he contends, has already produced the chilling effects that will stifle the innovative spirit at the heart of the Internet and networked communities.

१३ ऑगस्ट १८८८ रोजी भविष्यात प्रचंड लोकप्रिय ठरलेला जॉन लोगी बेअर्ड स्काटलंडमधील ग्लॅसगोजवळच्या खेडय़ात एका धर्मोपदेशकाच्या घरी जन्मला. काहीतरी नवीन करावे म्हणून जॉन फोटोग्राफी शिकला. हे शिक्षण पुढे तारांशिवाय लांबवर चित्र पाठविण्याच्या शोधाला पायाभूत ठरले.जॉर्ज हॅचिन्सन या एका धनाढय़ व्यापाऱ्याच्या साहाय्याने त्याने 'बेअर्ड टेलिव्हिजन' नावाची टेलिव्हिजन निर्मिती करणारी कंपनीही स्थापन केली.बेअर्ड-हॅचिन्सन या दोघांनी निर्मिलेल्या कंपनीच्या प्रयत्नांना यश आले आणि दूरचित्रवाणीचे दर्शकांसाठीचे पह...

This new volume in the Counterpoints series compares and contrasts different conceptions of working memory, generally recognized as the human cognitive system responsible for temporary storage of information. The book includes proponents of several different views. Robert Logie discusses the theoretical and empirical utility of separating working memory into an articulatory loop, a phonological store, and a visuo-spatial sketchpad into visual and spatial subsystems. Patricia Carpenter prov...

Beginning around 1865, as the fledgling art and science of photography began to appear in cities and towns across the United States, a small group of photographers, using new methods and equipment developed a few years before in Europe, began producing and offering for sale stereographic views of the people, places, and events that made up daily life in the then nearly 40-year-old city of Grand Rapids. These photographic views were unlike othersthat had preceded them and when viewed using ...

John Logie Baird loves inventing things! When he hears about another inventor who has built a machine to show real live pictures, John sets about trying to do the same. Equipped with bits and pieces found in his house, John begins a journey that will change the course of history forever.