Supported by: Miles Briggs*, Alexander Stewart*, Donald Cameron*, Jeremy Balfour*, Tom Mason*, Margaret Mitchell* *S5M-12658 Kenneth Gibson: 90 Years Since Logie Baird s First Colour Television ’ Transmission That the Parliament recognises that 3 July 2018 marks the 90th anniversary of — the world’s first colour television transmission, which was conducted in 1928 by John Logie Baird; understands that Baird, who was born in Helensburgh in 1888 and whose degree course at the University of Glasgow was interrupted by the onset of the First World War, was a leading pioneer in the development of television; acknowledges that this was demonstrated in 1926, when he became the first person to successfully transmit a television picture using a greyscale image and demonstrated stereoscopic television; notes that he subsequently set up the Baird Television Development Company, which produced the first transatlantic broadcast and the first live transmission of the Epsom Derby, and that, in later life, he pioneered developments in fibre- optics, radio direction finding, infrared night viewing and radar technology to help cement his position as one of Scotland's most renowned innovators and engineers, and hopes that people remember John Logie Baird s contributions to modern life and take pride in the history of Scottish ’ invention and discovery.