Logie
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Logie
C20: after John Logie Baird
Example Sentences
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Mechanical systems were developed in the 1920s, especially by the Scottish inventor James Logie Baird.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
The first crude mechanical televisions were developed in the mid 1920s by John Logie Baird in England and Charles Jenkins in the United States, and relied on rotating discs to transmit pictures.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 3, 2023
Since Jan Logie, a Green party MP, was a teenager, op-shops have felt like, “large dress-up boxes, providing me with the possibility of many lives to be lived,” she said.
From The Guardian • Nov. 20, 2020
John Logie Baird’s original television image of a moving face as transmitted at his public demonstration.
From The Verge • Feb. 6, 2018
"Gae out, gae out, my merrymen a',45 And bid Carmichael come speak to me; For I'll lay my life the pledge o' that, That yon's the shot o' young Logie."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
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