Bemused shoppers were treated to ‘a recognisable, if rather blurred’, image of simple forms such as letters printed in white on a black card.īaird’s breakthrough came in 1925 when he produced a recognisable image, complete with shades of grey and in 1926 he gave the world’s first public demonstration of television. Source: Wikimedia Commons.Īt the age of 34, John Logie Baird set about experimenting in television – the start of a passion which was to drive him for the rest of his life.īy early 1925, Baird was successful in demonstrating one of his experiments to the public, in Selfridges’ display window on Oxford Street, London. John Logie Baird demonstrating his mechanical-scan television in 1931. Is there an influential women you’d like to see on our coins in the future? Let us know in the comments below! There really have been some incredible women celebrated on our UK coins, and this is just a small selection. In 2020, to mark 100 years since her first publication, The Royal Mint celebrated the world’s best-selling novelist with a £2 coin.ĭavid Lawrence’s design of this coin pays homage to Christie’s crime novels, with a piece of a jigsaw slotting into place and her signature at the bottom. In 1971, she was made a Dame of the British Empire for her outstanding contribution to Literature.

Writing well into her later years, Christie wrote more than 70 detective novels as well as short fiction which have been adapted into films, television, and radio programmes. This incredibly popular story introduced readers to one of Christie’s most famous characters – Belgian detective Hercule Poirot*. After the end of the First World War, Christie published her first novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

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