--- title: Google Doodle Marks 90th Anniversary of the TV description: The doodle marks the anniversary of the first demonstration of television on Jan. 26, 1926 canonical: https://time.com/4193652/google-doodle-television-tv-anniversary/ author: Mark Rivett-Carnac article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-26T06:54:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:13.769Z og:title: New Google Doodle Marks 90th Anniversary of Television og:description: It was demonstrated by John Logie Baird on Jan. 26, 1926. og:url: https://time.com/4193652/google-doodle-television-tv-anniversary/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt810a79aa244c75c0/69887a94cf40a800edc41a2e/90th-anniversary-of-the-first-demonstration-of-television-6281357497991168-2-hp2x.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 90th-anniversary-of-the-first-demonstration-of-television-6281357497991168.2-hp2x og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: New Google Doodle Marks 90th Anniversary of Television twitter:description: It was demonstrated by John Logie Baird on Jan. 26, 1926. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt810a79aa244c75c0/69887a94cf40a800edc41a2e/90th-anniversary-of-the-first-demonstration-of-television-6281357497991168-2-hp2x.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # New Google Doodle Marks the 90th Anniversary of Television by [Mark Rivett-Carnac](https://time.com/author/mark-rivett-carnac/) ## Mark Rivett-Carnac Jan 26, 2016 6:54 AM UTC  Google by [Mark Rivett-Carnac](https://time.com/author/mark-rivett-carnac/) ## Mark Rivett-Carnac Jan 26, 2016 6:54 AM UTC We may live in an era of streaming, portable devices and virtual reality, but Google used its latest [Doodle](http://www.google.com/doodles/90th-anniversary-of-the-first-demonstration-of-television) to celebrate the humble television. The Doodle marks the 90th anniversary of the first public demonstration of the mechanical television. On Jan. 26, 1926, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird transmitted a moving image of his business partner’s face onto a screen, according to the [_Telegraph_](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/google-doodle/12121474/Who-invented-the-television-John-Logie-Baird-created-the-TV-in-1926.html). The image was blurred and measured only 3.5 by 2 in. (8.8 by 5 cm) but made history as the first live public broadcast. In a 1926 [review](http://time.com/vault/issue/1926-02-22/page/21/) of the “televisor,” as the device was known, TIME praised Baird’s devise for permitting “looking in as well as listening in.” Broadcasting for the receiver, which was priced at £30, was set “to begin at once.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4193652/google-doodle-television-tv-anniversary/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4193652/google-doodle-television-tv-anniversary/"},"headline":"New Google Doodle Marks the 90th Anniversary of Television","datePublished":"2016-01-26T06:54:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:13.769Z","description":"The \"televisor\" permitted “looking in as well as listening in”","url":"https://time.com/4193652/google-doodle-television-tv-anniversary/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Google Doodle","anniversary","TV","invention"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt810a79aa244c75c0/69887a94cf40a800edc41a2e/90th-anniversary-of-the-first-demonstration-of-television-6281357497991168-2-hp2x.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mark Rivett-Carnac","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/mark-rivett-carnac/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt810a79aa244c75c0/69887a94cf40a800edc41a2e/90th-anniversary-of-the-first-demonstration-of-television-6281357497991168-2-hp2x.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"90th-anniversary-of-the-first-demonstration-of-television-6281357497991168.2-hp2x","caption":"","creditText":"Google","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4193652/google-doodle-television-tv-anniversary/","name":"New Google Doodle Marks the 90th Anniversary of Television"}}]}] ```