John Logie Baird, remembered as a pioneer of television, passed away on June 14, 1946, at the age of 57. John was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, on August 14, 1888. He became a civil engineer before turning his attention to studies of the physics of light. While experimenting with electromechanical television systems in the 1920s, he made a number of breakthroughs, including the world's first publicly demonstrated television system in 1926. Though overshadowed by the electronic television system of his contemporary, Russian-American scientist, Vladimir Zworykin, Baird's work was instrumental in bringing television to its current form. After the breakthroughs of the 1920s, Baird built the world's first colour and stereoscopic television systems. Despite a lack of resources and the attention of other electronics firms, Baird's company, Baird Television Development Company, developed and eventually marketed the world's first mass-marketed television sets in 1929. His legacy lives on as a major contributor to the development of modern television.