BAIRD TELEVISION LTD. A collection of documents, most in typed form, contained in eight folders or envelopes, many addressed to or written by Major Archibald G. Church, and PROVIDING IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE BAIRD TELEVISION COMPANY AND ITS ROLE IN THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE MEDIUM IN THE 1930'S. One file, without a heading, contains 32 numbered letters and documents, dated 24th February 1930 to 9th November 1931, concerning publicity for television. Headings for the other files are as follows: 1. "Baird Television" (approximately 50 documents, 1931-35, including "Television To-day and To-morrow 1. 10. 35"), 2. "Baird Television Papers 1932, inc. letters from [Lord] Ampthill" (approximately 100 documents), 3. "Baird Co. New York Negotiations, Montreal Negotiations & Sundry Reports by Appleton, Watson-Watt" (approximately 40 documents, dated January-April 1932), 4. "Shareholders of Baird. Copy at April 1932," 5. "Baird Television" (20 documents, 1932-34, including "Medium or Ultra-Short Wave Television," a 6pp. typescript by Church dated 27th April, 1934), 6. "Complete Evidence Together with Exhibits to be placed before the Postmaster General's Television Committee, 7th June, 1934" (with some later documents loosely inserted), 7. "Memos, Correspondence, Foreign Negotiations Etc." (approximately 80 documents, 1936-38) A high proportion of these documents relate to the application and sale of patent specifications, and the working out of option and broadcasting agreements. Detailed reports, minutes or summaries of meetings, and a large amount of correspondence are all included. R. H. Tickell writing to the Directors Baird Television Ltd., as a shareholder, 25th December, 1931, states: "I have received Report and Statement of Accounts of your Co., as made out to June 30, 1931, and it seems to me that as your patents &c., have cost the company £515,061. O. 5. and as cash in hand and liquid assets are only about sufficient for a year's expenditure at the rate you are spending your funds, it is time you reconstructed your Company. I cannot believe that any sane Corporation would be willing to buy your patents for half a million pounds, but would be glad to hear I am mistaken." E. V. Appleton, Lord Appleton, writing to Major Church, 8. 1. 32, states: "The crux of the whole matter appears to be this. The broadcasting of television on normal broadcasting wavelengths has been taken as far as is physically possible by the Company. Little further progress can be made in this direction because of the limitations of the channel. The use of ultra-short waves appears, in my opinion, to be inevitable, and the Company should be widening its technical interests so that it is prepared to make the fullest use of the new channels. "The first chapter in the history of television appears to be ending. Using the normal broadcasting wavelengths Baird television is the best in the world, and it does not look as if any other company can produce better under the same limitations. But the advent of ultra-short waves changes the situation entirely and there is now going to be a new race for supremacy in the field. Can the Company repeat its success using the newer channels of communication?"
BAIRD TELEVISION LTD. A collection of documents, most in typed form, contained in eight folders or envelopes, many addressed to or written by Major Archibald G. Church, and PROVIDING IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE BAIRD TELEVISION COMPANY AND ITS ROLE IN THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE MEDIUM IN THE 1930'S. One file, without a heading, contains 32 numbered letters and documents, dated 24th February 1930 to 9th November 1931, concerning publicity for television. Headings for the other files are as follows: 1. "Baird Television" (approximately 50 documents, 1931-35, including "Television To-day and To-morrow 1. 10. 35"), 2. "Baird Television Papers 1932, inc. letters from [Lord] Ampthill" (approximately 100 documents), 3. "Baird Co. New York Negotiations, Montreal Negotiations & Sundry Reports by Appleton, Watson-Watt" (approximately 40 documents, dated January-April 1932), 4. "Shareholders of Baird. Copy at April 1932," 5. "Baird Television" (20 documents, 1932-34, including "Medium or Ultra-Short Wave Television," a 6pp. typescript by Church dated 27th April, 1934), 6. "Complete Evidence Together with Exhibits to be placed before the Postmaster General's Television Committee, 7th June, 1934" (with some later documents loosely inserted), 7. "Memos, Correspondence, Foreign Negotiations Etc." (approximately 80 documents, 1936-38) A high proportion of these documents relate to the application and sale of patent specifications, and the working out of option and broadcasting agreements. Detailed reports, minutes or summaries of meetings, and a large amount of correspondence are all included. R. H. Tickell writing to the Directors Baird Television Ltd., as a shareholder, 25th December, 1931, states: "I have received Report and Statement of Accounts of your Co., as made out to June 30, 1931, and it seems to me that as your patents &c., have cost the company £515,061. O. 5. and as cash in hand and liquid assets are only about sufficient for a year's expenditure at the rate you are spending your funds, it is time you reconstructed your Company. I cannot believe that any sane Corporation would be willing to buy your patents for half a million pounds, but would be glad to hear I am mistaken." E. V. Appleton, Lord Appleton, writing to Major Church, 8. 1. 32, states: "The crux of the whole matter appears to be this. The broadcasting of television on normal broadcasting wavelengths has been taken as far as is physically possible by the Company. Little further progress can be made in this direction because of the limitations of the channel. The use of ultra-short waves appears, in my opinion, to be inevitable, and the Company should be widening its technical interests so that it is prepared to make the fullest use of the new channels. "The first chapter in the history of television appears to be ending. Using the normal broadcasting wavelengths Baird television is the best in the world, and it does not look as if any other company can produce better under the same limitations. But the advent of ultra-short waves changes the situation entirely and there is now going to be a new race for supremacy in the field. Can the Company repeat its success using the newer channels of communication?"
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