360What happened in 1926?
4 moments from 1926 on 360n60, each told in 60 words or fewer.
- On this day · 26 January 1926
John Logie Baird demonstrates television
On 26 January 1926, the Scottish inventor John Logie Baird showed moving television pictures to members of the Royal Institution in his workshop in London. The images were small and flickering, but recognisable faces could be seen. Within a decade, regular television broadcasts had begun.
- On this day · 16 March 1926
Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fuelled rocket
On 16 March 1926, the American physicist Robert Goddard launched the first rocket powered by liquid fuel, from a farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. It flew for about two and a half seconds and rose about 12 m. Modern space rockets use the same basic idea.
- 1926 · from The 1920s: insulin, penicillin and the first television
Baird demonstrates television
- 1926 · from Karl Benz patents the first practical motor car
Daimler-Benz formed