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General articles relating to John Logie Baird
• Eye of the World: John Logie Baird and Television (Part I) (KINEMA, 1996)
• Eye of the World: John Logie Baird and Television (Part II) (KINEMA, 1996)
• Eye of the World: Iain Logie Baird interviewed by Gerald Pratley (Part III) (KINEMA, Fall 1997)

Helensburgh
• The Helensburgh Heritage Trust

Early television work in Hastings
• The John Logie Baird Collection—Hastings Museum, East Sussex, England
• Hastings Museum has vital Baird Letters!!

Noctovision (Baird's night vision system)
• Noctovision—Infrared Television in 1926

Phonovision (the world's earliest video recordings)
• tvdawn.com (Don McLean's site)

Baird Studios at The Crystal Palace
• The Crystal Palace Foundation
• More Crystal Palace Studios

Alexandra Palace
• Alexandra Palace Television Society
• A Sort Of Magic: The Black Presence On Pre-War British Television

Important television technologies in use today, and tomorrow
• 'Laser vision' from Microvision technologies
• DLP™ technology from Texas Instruments

Other Television Pioneers
• A.A. Campbell-Swinton (U.K.)
• Bell Laboratories (Herbert Ives) (U.S.A.)
• CBS Laboratories (Peter Goldmark) (coming soon)
• Allen B. DuMont (U.S.A.)
• Philo T. Farnsworth (U.S.A.)
• Fernseh A.G. (Germany) (coming soon)
• Charles Francis Jenkins (U.S.A.)
• Marconi-EMI (Isaac Shoenberg) (Russia, U.K.)
• Paul Nipkow (Russia, Germany)
• RCA (Vladimir Zworykin) (Russia, U.S.A.)
• RCA (David Sarnoff) (Russia, U.S.A.)
• Boris Rosing (Russia)
• Kenjiro Takayanagi (Japan)
• Telefunken (Germany) (coming soon)
• Dénes Mihály: Das Electrische Fernsehen und das Telehor. (Hungary, Germany)
• Kalman Tihanyi (Hungary)
• Tihanyi's television-guided bomb

Museum websites
• American Museum of the Moving Image New York, U.S.A.
• Paley Center (formely the Museum of Television & Radio) New York, U.S.A.
• The Early Television Museum Hilliard, Ohio, U.S.A.
• Antique Wireless Association (A.W.A.) Wireless Communication Museum Hilton, New York, U.S.A.
• N.H.K. Museum Japan
• MZTV Museum Toronto, Canada

Historic Television Societies
• The British Vintage Wireless Society/405 Alive (BVWS)
• The Narrow-bandwidth Television Association (NBTVA)
• The British Amateur Television Club (BATC)
• Broadcast Engineering Conservation Group (BECG)

Things named after John Logie Baird
• The Logies Australia
• British Caledonian Airbus A310-203 G-BKWT
• The John Logie Baird (pub) Hastings, East Sussex
• The John Baird (pub) Muswell Hill, London (renamed 2020 to Village Green)
• The Logie Baird (pub) Helensburgh, Scotland (closed in 2019)

Artworks inspired by John Logie Baird
• 'Stooky Bill TV' by David Hall, 1990
• Bairdcast Media: a history of machine translation by Yuko Mohri, 2008

Television sound
• The BBC Type A Microphone