John Logie Baird FRSE (/ ˈloʊɡi bɛərd /; 14 August 1888 -- 14 June 1946) was a Scottish engineer, innovator, one of the inventors of the mechanical television, demonstrating the first working television system on 26 January 1926, and inventor of both the first publicly demonstrated colour television system, and the first purely electronic colour television picture tube.
who invented the first television in the world
John Logie Baird