Question: who invented the first television in the world
Answer: John Logie Baird FRSE ( / ˈloʊɡi bɛərd / ; 14 August 1888 -- 14 June 1946 ) was a Scottish engineer , innovator , one of the inventors of the mechanical television , demonstrating the first working television system on 26 January 1926 , and inventor of both the first publicly demonstrated colour television system , and the first purely electronic colour television picture tube .