Origins Quiz — Monday, August 24, 2026

What device (and medium) for transmitting moving pictures did Scottish inventor John Logie Baird first publicly demonstrate in Soho, London, in 1926, broadcasting images of a ventriloquist's dummy named "Stooky Bill" and his office assistant, William Edward Taynton?

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